Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Surpassing Simple Aggregation: Advanced Strategies for Analyzing Contextual-Level Outcomes in Multilevel Models
This article introduces two advanced analytical strategies for analyzing contextual-level outcomes in multilevel models: the multilevel SEM and the two-step approach. Since these strategies are seldom used in comparative survey research, we first discuss their methodological and statistical advantages over the more commonly applied approach of group mean aggregation. We then illustrate these advantages in an empirical analysis of the effect of citizens' support for democratic values at the individual level on a contextual-level outcome - the persistence of democracy - drawing on data from the World Values Survey and the Quality of Government project. Whereas we found no significant effect of support for democratic values in the model using simple group mean aggregation, citizens' support for democratic values was a significant predictor of democracies' estimated survival rate when applying latent aggregation in multilevel SEM and the two-step approach. The article corroborates previous concerns with simple aggregation and demonstrates how researchers can improve the validity of their analyses of contextual-level outcomes by using alternative strategies of aggregation.
- ISSN
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2190-4936
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 233-263
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Methods, data, analyses : a journal for quantitative methods and survey methodology (mda), 12(2)
- Thema
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Politikwissenschaft
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
politische Einstellung
Demokratie
Wertorientierung
politische Stabilität
Daten
Mehrebenenanalyse
Aggregation
Stichprobenfehler
Umfrageforschung
vergleichende Forschung
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Becker, Dominik
Breustedt, Wiebke
Zuber, Christina Isabel
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutschland
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2018
- DOI
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Becker, Dominik
- Breustedt, Wiebke
- Zuber, Christina Isabel
Entstanden
- 2018
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