"Utilizing a systematic, broad approach, Introduction to the Comparative Method with Boolean Algebra gives readers the logical foundations of camparison with guided applications and is the ultimate comparative method text covering each of the current and most important issues in the field. Author Daneile Caramani discusses the elements of scientific research, including Mill's methods, Boolean algebra, classification and typologization, and necessary and sufficient conditions, and how these apply to concrete research in the social sciences." from back cover