Apples and Oranges? The Problem of Equivalence in Comparative Research

By Daniel Stegmueller. Political Analysis, 2011

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Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive? (2019, background): “In addition, extant tests assume that support for democracy items are comparable across countries although research has demonstrated that survey questions have different meanings in different countries (Stegmueller 2011).”
Value Orientations From the World Values Survey (2016, background): “As Stegmueller (2011) notes, “this enterprise will only be successful if the survey questions used are comparable, or equivalent, between countries” (p. 471).”
Authoritarianism in Black and White: Testing the Cross-Racial Validity of the Child Rearing Scale (2014, background): “…a trait within groups (Brown 2006).3 This challenge often arises in cross-national and cross-language studies, where items can be misinterpreted by respondents if scholars fail to fully account for cultural and linguistic nuances (Stegmueller 2011; Elkins and Sides 2010; Pérez 2009; Davidov 2009).”