Remember that if there is a necessary condition (or conditions), the outcome of interest cannot occur in the absence of that condition (or conditions). An intermediate solution term is immune from the abovementioned methodological problems. It is derived from empirically observable rows that are sufficient to yield the outcome and counterfactuals’ that do not conflict with the analysis ‘easy of necessity. Therefore, the discussion of the study’s findings is based on the intermediate solution formula. Because set theoretic methods are asymmetric, an for the ‘explanation of the outcome cannot automatically be derived from the explanation for the occurrence of the outcome’ (Schneider and Wagemann, 2012: 6). Therefore, a separate analysis of sufficiency for the non-occurrence of the outcome is conducted. The chapter thereafter conducts two robustness Besides measuring the extent to which the solution formula is robust, the first robustness test aims to eliminate one limitation of this study by including the electoral system as one of the conditions. 4.3.1 The Analysis of Necessity The analysis of necessary conditions seeks to determine whether a single condition (or the absence of it) is necessary to produce the outcome. If a condition is proved to be necessary, it must be a component of each sufficient path leading to the occurrence of the outcome. Nevertheless, because the set theoretic method is asymmetric, the necessary condition for the occurrence of the outcome may occur in some paths that lead to the non-occurrence of the
Remember that if there is a necessary condition (or conditions), the outcome of interest cannot occur in the absence of that condition (or conditions). An intermediate solution term is immune from the abovementioned methodological problems. It is derived from empirically observable rows that are sufficient to yield the outcome and ‘easy counterfactuals’ that do not conflict with the analysis of necessity. Therefore, the discussion of the study’s findings is based on the intermediate solution formula. Because set theoretic methods are asymmetric, an ‘explanation for the of the outcome cannot automatically be derived from the explanation for the occurrence of the outcome’ (Schneider and Wagemann, 2012: 6). Therefore, a separate analysis of sufficiency for the non-occurrence of the outcome is conducted. The chapter thereafter conducts two robustness Besides measuring the extent to which the solution formula is robust, the first robustness test aims to eliminate one limitation of this study by including the electoral system as one of the conditions. 4.3.1 The Analysis of Necessity The analysis of necessary conditions seeks to determine whether a single condition (or the absence of it) is necessary to produce the outcome. If a condition is proved to be necessary, it must be a component of each sufficient path leading to the occurrence of the outcome. Nevertheless, because the set theoretic method is asymmetric, the necessary condition for the occurrence of the outcome may occur in some paths that lead to the non-occurrence of the