POLITICAL DEMOCRACY - CONCEPTUAL AND MEASUREMENT TRAPS

被引：135

作者：

BOLLEN, KA

机构：

[1] Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27599-3210, N.C.

来源：

STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | 1990年 / 25卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1007/BF02716903

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

The movement toward democratic political systems in many nations in the 1980s has renewed interest in measurement of political democracy. This paper calls attention to the problems that surround both the definition and measurement of political democracy. The main conceptual problems are the failure to develop an adequate theoretical definition of this concept, the confounding of the concept with others, and treating democracy as a binary rather than a continuous concept. Four problems of measurement are: invalid indicators, subjective indicators, ordinal or dichotomous measures, and the failure to test reliability or validity. The paper offers several suggestions to improve measurement as well as a warning about the danger of repeating past errors. © 1990 Springer.

引用

页码：7 / 24

页数：18

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