d.graduate: Graduate Student Union Recognition at Research Universities

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Description

This dataset is originally from Caren and Panofsky (2005), who analyze the determinants of unionization attempts by graduate student workers at research universities using tQCA. Their study has been replicated and corrected by Ragin and Strand (2008).

Usage

data(d.graduate)

Format

This data frame contains 17 rows (cases) and the following 6 columns (factors):

[ , 1]	P	exogenous factor	:	public university	("1" yes, "0" no)
[ , 2]	E	exogenous factor	:	support of elite allies	("1" yes, "0" no)
[ , 3]	A	exogenous factor	:	national union affiliation	("1" yes, "0" no)
[ , 4]	S	exogenous factor	:	a strike or strike threat	("1" yes, "0" no)
[ , 5]	EBA	exogenous factor	:	E present before A	("1" yes, "0" no, "-" don't care)
[ , 6]	REC	endogenous factor	:	union recognition	("1" yes, "0" no)

Contributors

Thiem, Alrik: collection, documentation

Author(s)

Alrik Thiem (Personal Website; ResearchGate Website)

Source

Caren, Neal, and Aaron Panofsky. 2005. “TQCA: A Technique for Adding Temporality to Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” Sociological Methods & Research 34 (2):147-72. DOI: 10.1177/0049124105277197.

Ragin, Charles C., and Sarah Ilene Strand. 2008. “Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Study Causal Order: Comment on Caren and Panofsky (2005).” Sociological Methods & Research 36 (4):431-41. DOI: 10.1177/0049124107313903.

QCApro documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:09 p.m.