Anchoring the experts: Using vignettes to compare party ideology across countries

Using Anchoring Vignettes to Adjust Self-Reported Personality: A Comparison Between Countries

Data from self-report tools cannot be readily compared between cultures due to culturally specific ways of using a response scale. As such, anchoring vignettes have been proposed as a suitable methodology for correcting against this difference. We developed anchoring vignettes for the Big Five Inventory-44 (BFI-44) to supplement its Likert-type response options. Based on two samples (Rwanda: n ...

Party Dominance in 18 Countries: The Role of Party Dominance in the Transmission of Political Ideology

Improving Anchoring Vignettes: Designing Surveys to Correct Interpersonal Incomparability

We report the results of several randomized survey experiments designed to evaluate two intended improvements to anchoring vignettes, an increasingly common technique used to improve interpersonal comparability in survey research. This technique asks for respondent self-assessments followed by assessments of hypothetical people described in vignettes. Variation in assessments of the vignettes a...

Ideology and Party System Development

The Communist Party of China and Ideology