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Comparative Politics

The problem of establishing equivalence in order to compare the same concepts or phenomena in different settings is common for researchers in comparative politics. Despite the importance of the task there are few strategies to deal effectively with it.

Comparative Politics 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 organisations, party positions, democratic regimes, and the mass media. The chapters cover different topics, methods, data and countries, making use of previously unpublished empirical research to illustrate the difficulties in finding similar or identical indicators in realistic research settings.

This useful study reveals the potential for pragmatic solutions to the problems of establishing equivalence. Many of the strategies used show how the complicated search for equivalence can unearth substantial additional information which can enhance the quality and reliability of any research.

Jan W. van Deth is Professor of Political Science and International Comparative Social Research at the University of Mannheim, and Head of Research Department II of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.

Routledge Advances in International Relations and Politics

1 Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis

France, Britain and Europe

Henrik Larsen

2 Agency, Structure and International Politics

From ontology to empirical enquiry

Gil Friedman and Harvey Starr

3 The Political Economy of Regional Go-operation in the Middle East

Ali Carkoglu, Mine Eder, Kemal Kxrisci

4 Peace-Maintenance

The evolution of international political authority

Jarat Chopra

5 International Relations and Historical Sociology

Breaking down boundaries

Stephen Hobden

6 Comparative Politics

The problem of equivalence

Edited by Jan W. van Deth

7 The Politics of Central Banks

Robert Elgie and Helen Thompson

Comparative Politics

The problem of equivalence

Edited by Jan W. van Deth

First published 1998

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

1998 selection and editorial matter, Jan W. van Deth; individual chapters, the contributors

The right of the contributors to be identified as the authors of their respective contributions has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Comparative politics: the problem of equivalence/edited by Jan W. van Deth.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Comparative government. I. Deth, Jan W. van.
JF128.C66 1998
320.301 dc21 9839197

ISBN 0-415-19245-5

Contents

1
JAN W. VAN DETH
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BETTINA WESTLE
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RONALD INGLEHART
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MARTIN FELDKIRCHER
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MICHAEL BRAUN
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JAN W. VAN DETH AND FRAUKE KREUTER
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THOMAS POGUNTKE
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GBOR TKA
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ANDR KAISER
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RDIGER SCHMITT-BECK

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Contributors

Michael Braun is Senior Project Director and was formerly Director of the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) at the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA) in Mannheim. He received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1985. He is mainly interested in rational choice theory and research methodology, and has worked especially on international comparative research in the fields of inequality, work orientations, and the family.

Martin Feldkircher is Researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research in a comparative project on the change of intermediary organisations and value orientations in political subcultures. He has published articles in Blickpunkt Gesellschaft 3 (Westdeutscher Verlag 1994) and Soziale Ungleichheit (Leske + Budrich 1997). His main research focus is on social change, especially on value orientations and their change.

Ronald Inglehart is a Professor of Political Science and a Program Director in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He helped found the Eurobarometer surveys, and is coordinator of the World Values Surveys. He is author of more than a hundred publications, including Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies (Princeton 1997).

Andr Kaiser is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim. He is author of Staatshandeln ohne Staatsverstndnis, Die Entwicklung des Politikfeldes Arbeitsbeziehungen in Grossbritannien 19651990 (Brockmeyer 1995), and editor of Regieren in Westminster-Demokratien (Nomos, forthcoming). He has published widely on several aspects of British politics. His current research interest is institutional adaptation and reform in established democracies.

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