Equivalence in Comparative Politics: The Problem of Equivalence (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

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.

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.