Month: June 2026

On June 20, Hilde van Meegdenburg (Leiden University) and I presented our co-authored book manuscript “Uncovering Causal Symptoms: Case Study Research, Process Tracing, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis” at the Advances in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (AQMMR) workshop, held virtually as part of the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQRM) 2026 at Syracuse University. The manuscript was discussed by James Mahoney (Northwestern University) and Ingo Rohlfing (University of Passau). The workshop was organized by Diana Kapiszewski (Georgetown University) and Sebastian Karcher (Syracuse University), and coordinated with Alan Jacobs (University of British Columbia) and Erica Simmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison) as editors of the Methods for Social Inquiry series published by Cambridge University Press. Many thanks to our discussants and all participants for the constructive and intensive discussion of our manuscript—this has been tremendously helpful.

On June 8, the article “Can the Public Sector Break the Mold? Exploring Antecedent Factors Driving Sensing Capabilities With fsQCA in the Tuscan Family and Community Nurse Model” was published in Public Policy and Administration (co-authored with Alessia Caputo, Lorenzo Taddeucci, and Milena Vainieri of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies). In the article, we apply fuzzy-set QCA to explore conditions for developing organizational adaptability, using data from 26 Tuscan health districts. The online first version of the article can be accessed here.

On June 2, I was invited to give a lecture on “Pacifism, Isolationism or Anti-Americanism? Explaining Public Opposition to Supporting Ukraine against Russia’s War of Aggression” (based on a paper co-authored with Wolfgang Wagner) at the Foreign Policy Lab of the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck. The paper presents first results from a survey that was conducted under the NEST project (“Navigating the Storm: European Political Contestation in Geopolitical Transformation”), where I am involved as Co-PI, together with my VU colleagues Chendi Wang (PI), Ben Crum, and Wolfgang Wagner. Thanks for the kind invitation and organization of the event to Martin Senn, Anna Saischek, and Katja Astner, and thanks to all participants for their helpful comments and questions!