Comparative Politics: The Problem of Equivalence

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Jan W. van Deth
Psychology Press, 1998 - Political Science - 278 pages
This book tackles the issues involved and explores strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence. Each contribution focuses on a theoretically relevant theme, such as: tolerance; political values; religious orientations; gender roles; voluntary associations; party organizations and party positions; democratic regimes, and the mass media. Each chapter covers different topics, methods, data and countries, making use of research to show the problems of finding similar or identical indicators in realistic research settings.
 

Contents

Equivalence in comparative political research
1
Tolerance
20
Political values
61
Religious orientations and church attendance
86
Gender roles
111
Membership of voluntary associations
135
Party organisations
156
Party positions
180
Institutional regimes
205
Of readers viewers and catdogs
222
References
247
Name index
267
Subject index
272
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Jan W. van Deth is Professor of Political Science and International Comparative Social Research at the University of Mannheim, and Hea d of Research Department II of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.

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