Equivalence in Comparative Politics

This collections explores strategies for establishing equivalence to compare the same concepts or phenomena in different settings. It selection focuses on a theoretically relevant theme, ranging from tolerance and political organizations to gender roles and the mass media.

Michael Braun is Senior Project Director at the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA) in Mannheim. Martin Feldkircher is Researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. Ronald Inglehart is a Professor of Political Science and a Program Director in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Andre Kaiser is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim. Frauke Kreuter is at the Faculty of Political and Administrative Science of the University of Konstanz. Thomas Poguntke is Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research of the University of Mannheim. Rudiger Schmitt-Beck is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim. Gabor Toka is an Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. 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. Bettina Westle is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld.