A Multitrait-Multimethod approach to pinpoint the validity of aggregated governance indicators

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 849-864

  Neumann, Robert ^a   Graeff, Peter ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Corruption; Democracy; Dimensionality; Multitrait Multimethod; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955174887     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-009-9238-7     Document Type: Article

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