Methoden vergleichen

	Event Data Analysis	Qualitative Comparative Analysis	Wordfish Scaling
Fachgebiet	Political Science	Political Science	Political Science
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Latent structure
Entstehungsjahr	—	1987	2008
Urheber	Conflict-studies and computational-social-science traditions (McClelland, Schrodt, King)	Charles C. Ragin	Jonathan Slapin and Sven-Oliver Proksch
Typ	Automated coding and analysis of who-did-what-to-whom event records	Set-theoretic, configurational comparative method	Unsupervised latent-position model for word-count data
Wegweisende Quelle	Schrodt, P. A. (2012). Precedents, Progress, and Prospects in Political Event Data. International Interactions, 38(4), 546–569.	Ragin, C. C. (1987). The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520058347	Slapin, J. B., & Proksch, S.-O. (2008). A Scaling Model for Estimating Time-Series Party Positions from Texts. American Journal of Political Science, 52(3), 705–722.
Aliasnamen	Event data coding, Political event data, Conflict event data, CAMEO event coding	QCA, csQCA, fsQCA, Configurational comparative method	Wordfish text scaling, Poisson scaling of texts, Unsupervised text scaling, Wordfish position estimation
Verwandt	3	3	4
Zusammenfassung	Event data analysis converts streams of news reports into structured records of political interactions — who did what to whom, when — and aggregates them into time series of cooperation and conflict between actors. Each event is coded as a source actor, an action type drawn from an ontology such as CAMEO, a target actor, and a date. Modern systems extract these events automatically from millions of news stories, enabling near-real-time measurement of interstate and intrastate behavior for forecasting and analysis.	Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a set-theoretic, configurational method that identifies which combinations of conditions are necessary or sufficient for an outcome across a set of cases. Developed by Charles Ragin, it treats each case as a configuration of set memberships, builds a truth table of all logically possible combinations, and uses Boolean algebra to minimize them into the simplest expressions that account for the outcome. It bridges qualitative case knowledge and cross-case generalization, embracing causal complexity through conjunctural causation, equifinality, and asymmetry.	Wordfish scaling is an unsupervised text-as-data method that estimates a single latent position for each political document — a party manifesto, a legislative speech, a press release — directly from its word frequencies, without any reference texts or hand coding. Introduced by Slapin and Proksch in 2008, it models word counts as draws from a Poisson distribution whose rate depends on a document position and word-specific parameters, recovering, for example, a left–right ordering of parties purely from how often each word appears in each text.