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How Too Little Can Give You a Little Too Much : Determining the Number of Hou…
Accurately assessing the number of household phone lines in random-digit dialed (RDD) surveys for use in weighting has become more complicated over time. This study evaluates phone line weighting by asking an in-depth battery of seven questions designed to measure the number of available land lines in the home more precisely. The results show that this weighting correction is not so simpl…
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- Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 114-124
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- 0033-362X
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- Public Opinion Quarterly
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Does "Yes or No" on the Telephone Mean the Same as "Check-All-That-Apply" on …
Recent experimental research has shown that respondents to forced-choice questions endorse significantly more options than respondents to check-all questions. This research has challenged the common assumption that these two question formats can be used interchangeably but has been limited to comparisons within a single survey mode. In this paper we use data from a 2004 random sample surv…
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- Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 103-113
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- 0033-362X
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- Public Opinion Quarterly
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An Experiment on the Measurement of Political Knowledge in Surveys
In a series of articles, Mondak and colleagues argue that the conventional way of measuring political knowledge in surveys is flawed. Personality related "propensity to guess" underestimates the level of political knowledge in the population and distorts estimates of between group differences, when a DK alternative is offered. This has led Mondak to recommend the use of closed-ended items…
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- Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 90-102
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- 0033-362X
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- Public Opinion Quarterly
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Social Desirability Effects and Support for a Female American President
Public opinion polls show consistently that a substantial portion of the American public would vote for a qualified female presidential candidate. Because of the controversial nature of such questions, however, the responses may suffer from social desirability effects. In other words, respondents may be purposely giving false answers as not to violate societal norms. Using an unobtrusive …
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- Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 76-89
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- 0033-362X
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- Public Opinion Quarterly
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Framing Gender Equality in the European Union Political Discourse
In the last decade, the European Union (EU) approach to gender equality has broadened to new concepts, such as gender mainstreaming, and new issues, such as "family policies", "domestic violence", and "gender inequality in politics". However, the frame analysis of policy documents in these new areas shows, first, that each issue has developed its own particular features, and, secondly, th…
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- Vol. 15, No. 1, Page 101-129
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- 1072-4745
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- Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
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Gender, Class, and Family: Men and Gender Equality in a Danish Context
The aim of the article is to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of men's different conditions and choices in contemporary Danish society. The article is based on interesectionality and diversity thinking as it distinguishes between options available to men in different social positions. The primary focus is on various types of empirical data that illuminate the intersection …
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- Vol. 15, No. 1, Page 53-78
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- 1072-4745
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- Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
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The Relative Validity of Inferences About Mediation as a Function of Research…
Tests of assumed mediation models are common in the organizational sciences. However, the validity of inferences about mediation is a function of experimental design and the setting of a study. Regrettably, most tests of mediation have relied on the application of so-called ``causal modeling'' techniques to data from nonexperimental studies. As we demonstrate, inferences about the validit…
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- Vol. 11, No. 2, Page 326-352
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- 1094-4281
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- Organizational Research Methods
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Reflections on Mediation
This commentary reviews the author's history with mediation. In the second part, the author attempts to explain why there is such interest in the topic. In the third part, the author comments on the five articles in this feature topic.
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- Vol. 11, No. 2, Page 353-358
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- 1094-4281
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- Organizational Research Methods
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Testing Mediation and Suppression Effects of Latent Variables: Bootstrapping …
Because of the importance of mediation studies, researchers have been continuously searching for the best statistical test for mediation effect. The approaches that have been most commonly employed include those that use zero-order and partial correlation, hierarchical regression models, and structural equation modeling (SEM). This study extends MacKinnon and colleagues (MacKinnon, Lockwo…
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- Vol. 11, No. 2, Page 296-325
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- 1094-4281
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- Organizational Research Methods
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Anthropological communities of interpretation for Burma: An overview
This paper surveys the history of anthropological work on Burma, dealing both with Burman and other ethnic groups. It focuses upon the relations between anthropology and other disciplines, and upon the relationship of such work to the development of anthropological theory. It tries to show how anthropology has contributed to an overall understanding of Burma as a field of study and, conve…
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- Vol. 39, No. 2, Page 239-254
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- 0022-4634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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The delivery of social services in northern Thailand
This article describes parallel professional secular and traditional religious social service delivery systems in northern Thailand within global trends towards secular provision. It locates these systems in their cultural, historical context and raises questions about the future directions of these parallel service delivery models.
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- Vol. 51, No. 2, Page 193-205
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- 0020-8728
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- International Social Work
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Community in a diverse society: Using three Western approaches to understand …
In this article three different perspectives on community organization in a Western context – structural, cultural, and critical cultural approaches – are described in order to shed light on the discussion of community development in post-socialist urban China, where the decline of socialist communities has caused increasing concerns about rediscovering community attachment.
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- Vol. 51, No. 1, Page 55-68
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- 0020-8728
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- International Social Work
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Trust in the public sector: is there any evidence for a long-term decline?
Concerns with declining public trust in government have become a permanent element of the contemporary political discourse. This concern also extends to levels of citizens' trust in the public administration and public services. Trust is said to be declining, and this decline is generally seen as detrimental to public service delivery. In this article, we examine the main elements in this…
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- Vol. 74, No. 1, Page 47-64
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- 0020-8523
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- International Review of Administrative Sciences
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Autocratic Audience Costs: Regime Type and Signaling Resolve
Scholars of international relations usually argue that democracies are better able to signal their foreign policy intentions than nondemocracies, in part because democracies have an advantage in generating audience costs that make backing down in international crises costly to the leader. This article argues that the conventional hypothesis underestimates the extent to which nondemocratic…
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- Vol. 62, No. 1, Page 35-64
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- 0020-8183
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- International Organization
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Website usage metrics: A re-assessment of session data
Metrics derived from user visits or sessions provide a means of evaluating Websites and an important insight into online information seeking behaviour, the most important of them being the duration of sessions and the number of pages viewed in a session, a possible busyness indicator. However, the identification of session (termed often ‘sessionization’) is fraught with difficulty in …
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- Vol. 44, No. 1, Page 358-372
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- 0306-4573
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- Information Processing & Management
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Web search engine multimedia functionality
Web search engines are beginning to offer access to multimedia searching, including audio, video and image searching. In this paper we report findings from a study examining the state of multimedia search functionality on major general and specialized Web search engines. We investigated 102 Web search engines to examine: (1) how many Web search engines offer multimedia searching, (2) the …
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- Vol. 44, No. 1, Page 340-357
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- 0306-4573
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Searching strategies for the Hungarian language
This paper reports on the underlying IR problems encountered when dealing with the complex morphology and compound constructions found in the Hungarian language. It describes evaluations carried out on two general stemming strategies for this language, and also demonstrates that a light stemming approach could be quite effective. Based on searches done on the CLEF test collection, we find…
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- Vol. 44, No. 1, Page 310-324
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- 0306-4573
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Questionnaire mode effects in interactive information retrieval experiments
The questionnaire is an important technique for gathering data from subjects during interactive information retrieval (IR) experiments. Research in survey methodology, public opinion polling and psychology has demonstrated a number of response biases and behaviors that subjects exhibit when responding to questionnaires. Furthermore, research in human–computer interaction has demonstrate…
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- Vol. 44, No. 1, Page 122-141
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- 0306-4573
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On the role of user-centred evaluation in the advancement of interactive info…
This paper discusses the role of user-centred evaluations as an essential method for researching interactive information retrieval. It draws mainly on the work carried out during the Clarity Project where different user-centred evaluations were run during the lifecycle of a cross-language information retrieval system. The iterative testing was not only instrumental to the development of a…
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- Vol. 44, No. 1, Page 22-38
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- 0306-4573
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- Information Processing & Management
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User-centred versus system-centred evaluation of a personalization system
Some of the most popular measures to evaluate information filtering systems are usually independent of the users because they are based in relevance judgments obtained from experts. On the other hand, the user-centred evaluation allows showing the different impressions that the users have perceived about the system running. This work is focused on discussing the problem of user-centred ve…
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- Vol. 44, No. 3, Page 1293-1307
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