Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling in Cross-National Perspective
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2014
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The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with IFiS Publishers
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This article describes the research project Democratic Values and Protest Behavior:
Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling. This survey
data harmonization project engages with the relationship between democracy and protest
behavior in comparative, cross-national perspective by proposing a theoretical model that
explains variation in political protest in light of individual-level characteristics,
country-level determinants, and interactions between the two types of
factors. Methodologically, the project requires data with information at
both the individual- and the country-level that varies over time and across
space. While the social sciences have a growing wealth of survey projects, the data are
often not comparable. This project selects variables from existing international surveys for
ex post harmonization to create an integrated dataset consisting of large number of variables
with individuals nested in countries and time periods. Throughout this process, focus is
on three important and well-defined fields of methodology, namely data harmonization,
measurement comparability, and multi-level modeling.
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Ask: Research and Methods. Volume 23, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 103-114