Measuring satisfaction with democracy: how good are different scales across countries and languages?

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• dc.contributor.author Poses, Carlos
• dc.contributor.author Revilla, Melanie
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-17T07:26:34Z
• dc.date.available 2022-05-17T07:26:34Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix
• dc.description.abstract The Satisfaction With Democracy (SWD) indicator is very often used in social sciences’ research. However, while there is debate about which concept it measures, the discussion about the size of its measurement errors (how well it measures the underlying concept ‘satisfaction with the way democracy works’) is scarce. Nonetheless, measurement errors can affect the results and threaten comparisons across studies, countries and languages. Thus, in this paper, we estimated the measurement quality (complement of measurement errors) of the SWD indicator for 7 response scales across 38 country-language groups, using three multitrait-multimethod experiments from the European Social Survey. Results show that measurement errors explain from 16% (11-point scale) to 54% (4-point scale) of the variance in the observed responses. Additionally, we provide insights to improve questionnaire design and evaluate the indicator’s comparability across scales, countries and languages.
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• dc.identifier.citation Poses C, Revilla M. Measuring satisfaction with democracy: how good are different scales across countries and languages? European Political Science Review. 2022 Feb;14(1):18-35. DOI: 10.1017/S1755773921000266
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755773921000266
• dc.identifier.issn 1755-7739
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53110
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof European Political Science Review. 2022 Feb;14(1):18-35
• dc.rights © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of European Consortium for Political Research. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Satisfaction With Democracy (SWD)
• dc.subject.keyword Measurement errors
• dc.subject.keyword Measurement quality
• dc.subject.keyword European Social Survey (ESS)
• dc.subject.keyword Multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) experiments
• dc.title Measuring satisfaction with democracy: how good are different scales across countries and languages?
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