This book discusses and compares four different approaches towards analyzing panel data in QCA. It introduces QCA as a research approach, then discusses the most important assumptions, and steps like set-calibration and theory-testing, and demonstrates each of the four panel data approaches.

Preya Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Political Science, Xavier University of Louisiana. Her articles have been published in the International Journal of Social Research Methods and Methodological Innovations. Along with panel data QCA, her research interests include microfinance, economic participation of women, and post-conflict economic development. She has taught courses on International Political Economy and Quantitative Methods, amongst others.