A Theory and Procedure of Scale Analysis
With Applications in Political Research
1st Edition
Published on 19. July 2011
XI, 353 pages
978-3-11-081320-3 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1. THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Data models
- 1.3 Measurement models
- 1.4 Outline of the study
- PART I. THEORY AND METHOD
- 2. THE DETERMINISTIC MODEL: THE GUTTMAN SCALE
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The perfect scale
- 2.3 The two sets as populations
- 2.4 The imperfect scale: the problem of "error"
- 2.5 Coefficients of scalability
- 2.6 Procedures of scale analysis
- 2.7 The quasi-scale: a stochastic model
- 3. PROBABILISTIC RESPONSE: LATENT STRUCTURE MODELS
- 3.1 Latent structure analysis
- 3.2 Latent structure models for dichotomous data
- 4. HOMOGENEITY AND HOLOMORPHISM IN SCALING MODELS: SOME SIMPLE PROPERTIES
- 4.1 Holomorphic two-parameter models
- 4.2 Scale statistics: score, reliability, scalability and patterns
- 4.3 Approximate sampling distributions
- 5. A CLASS OF SCALING PROCEDURES
- 5.1 Summary and evaluation of the findings
- 5.2 Description of scaling procedures
- PART II. APPLICATIONS IN POLITICAL RESEARCH
- 6. CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON: THE DISCOVERY OF DIMENSIONAL IDENTITY
- 6.1 On cross-cultural comparison
- 6.2 The study
- 6.3 The study
- 6.4 A Dutch study (Amsterdam, 1964)
- 6.5 A second Dutch study (Amsterdam, 1965)
- 6.6 A scale of political interest
- 6.7 Conclusions
- 7. THE CROSS-CULTURAL ROBUSTNESS OF SCALES: POLITICAL EFFICACY
- 7.1 Dutch-American comparisons of the "sense of political efficacy"
- 7.2 Some further possibilities
- 8. AN EXPLORATION OF POLITICAL EFFICACY
- 8.1 A Dutch extension of the efficacy scale
- 8.2 An analysis across sub-groups
- 8.3 A broader efficacy dimension: a combined scale (17 items)
- 8.4 Investigating the double monotony of scales
- 8.5 The reliability of doubly monotone scales
- 9. APPLICATIONS OF MULTIPLE SCALING
- 9.1 Scaling opinion leadership
- 9.2 The sense of civic competence and the sense of political efficacy
- 9.3 Influence stereotypes
- 9.4 Scaling political participation
- APPENDIX
- 1 Sampling design
- 2 The Dutch text of the scales
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
