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Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Robert Adcock,David Collier +1 more
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The authors discuss the contextual specificity of measurement claims, explore a variety of measurement strategies that seek to combine generality and validity by devoting greater attention to context, and address the proliferation of terms for alternative measurement validation procedures and offer an account of the three main types of validation most relevant to political scientists.Citations
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Reliability and validity
TL;DR: Definition: To what extent does the study allow us to draw conclusions about a causal effect between two or more constructs?
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy. Evaluating Alternative Indices
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TL;DR: The authors’ conclusion is that constructors of democracy indices tend to be quite self-conscious about methodological issues but that even the best indices suffer from important weaknesses.
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Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research
TL;DR: A unified approach which joins intensive case-study analysis with statistical analysis improves the prospects of making valid causal inferences in cross-national and other forms of comparative research by drawing on the distinct strengths of two important approaches.
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Interpretation and Method : Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn
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State Repression and Political Order
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Structural Equations with Latent Variables
TL;DR: The General Model, Part I: Latent Variable and Measurement Models Combined, Part II: Extensions, Part III: Extensions and Part IV: Confirmatory Factor Analysis as discussed by the authors.
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a history of the first half of the 20th century, from 1875 to 1914, of the First World War and the Second World War.
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Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix.
TL;DR: This transmutability of the validation matrix argues for the comparisons within the heteromethod block as the most generally relevant validation data, and illustrates the potential interchangeability of trait and method components.
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Construct validity in psychological tests.
Lee J. Cronbach,Paul E. Meehl +1 more
TL;DR: The present interpretation of construct validity is not "official" and deals with some areas where the Committee would probably not be unanimous, but the present writers are solely responsible for this attempt to explain the concept and elaborate its implications.
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Reliability and Validity Assessment
TL;DR: The paper shows how reliability is assessed by the retest method, alternative-forms procedure, split-halves approach, and internal consistency method.