Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Necessary Condition Logics, Research Design, and Theory Chapter 2 Basic Logic and Research Design: Conceptualization, Case Selection, and the Form of Relationships Chapter 3 Cause, Correlation, and Necessary Conditions Chapter 4 The Substantive Importance of Necessary Condition Hypotheses Chapter 5 Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study Chapter 6 Necessary Conditions in Case Studies: Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in July 1914 Chapter 7 Practicing Coercion: Revisiting Successes and Failures Using Boolean Logic and Comparative Methods Chapter 8 Fuzzy-set Analysis of Necessary Conditions Chapter 9 The Statistical Methodology of Necessary Conditions Chapter 10 Opportunity, Willingness, and Political Uncertainty: Theoretical Foundations of Politics Chapter 11 Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis Chapter 12 The Decision to Attack Iraq: A Noncompensatory Theory of Decision-Making Chapter 13 Necessity and Sufficiency in Social Phenomena: Theoretical and Methodological Progress