17:45 - 20:00
Friday-Panel
Chair/s:
Daniel Stegmueller
Discussant/s:
Daniel Stegmueller
Meeting Room E

Tasos Kalandrakis, Zuheir Desai
The Core of the Party System

Ali Kagalwala, Thiago Moreira, Guy Whitten
Let them eat pie: addressing the partial contestation problem in multiparty electoral contests

Flavio Azevedo
A Systematic Assessment of Ideological Measures: An empirical analyses

Miklós Sebők, Zoltán Kacsuk, Ákos Máté
The (real) need for a human touch: Testing a human-machine hybrid topic classification workflow on a New York Times corpus

Marlene Mußotter
Challenging the predominant measurement approach: presenting new measurement instruments for both nationalism and patriotism
A Systematic Assessment of Ideological Measures: An empirical analyses
Flavio Azevedo
Friedrich Schiller University

Measures of political ideologies are foundational to a broad range of scholarship in social sciences. Ensuring an accurate measurement of an individual’s political proclivities is of utmost importance to the credibility of published results within Political Psychology. However, as political psychological phenomena are mostly latent – in that the constructs of interest are not directly observable – its measurement requires appropriate psychometric development and validation. The lack thereof may affect the verity of reported findings as well as its replicability. With the recent surge in interest in politico-psychological research, instruments intending to gauge one’s location on the ideological space abound in the marketplace. But while producing multiple instruments for the same construct may be convenient, it is unlikely that they are all equally valid indicators of ideological content. Also, the vast majority of appraised studies utilized on the fly measures, small N, and student or convenient samples. Importantly, it is a standard practice to assume ideological inventories can be used interchangeably. This untested assumption, if shown not to hold, may pose a threat to the comparability and generalizability of findings. Despite these drawbacks, there is not as of yet a study assessing the comparability, replicability and validity of ideological instruments, and this study aims to fill this gap.