Dirk Berg-Schlosser

Course: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) (2015, 2014, 2013)

Dirk Berg-Schlosser is Professor of Political Science at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. He graduated from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, where he also earned a PhD. He has another PhD from the University of California. He is former Vice President of the International Political Science Association and Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research. His latest book is Mixed Methods in Comparative Politics. Principles and Applications (2012), and he recently co-edited the International Encyclopedia of Political Science (2011). He is also author and co-author of countless articles and books on research methods, democracy and democratization, development, and political culture, among them a German textbook on QCA and related comparative methods (2011), Democratization. The State of the Art (2007), and Poverty and Development (2003). He has previously taught at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques at the University of Ljubljana, and the IPSA Summer Schools in Ankara, São Paulo, and Stellenbosch.