Can we Rate Public Support for Democracy in a Comparable Way? Cross-National Equivalence of Democratic Attitudes in the World Value Survey

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-286

  Ariely, Gal ^a   Davidov, Eldad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward democracy; Measurement invariance; Multiple group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA); World Value Survey (WVS)

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; DEMOCRACY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL INDICATOR;

EID: 80053317453     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9693-5     Document Type: Article

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