In Rudolf Alexander Boschwitz’ novel ‚The Traveller‘ (1939), Jewish businessman Silbermann is forced to make a series of train journeys through Nazi Germany after failed attempt escape across the border. Gradually, he begins realise that cannot persecution. However, while always in danger being exposed as Jewish, journey also offers him insights into National Socialist regime, e.g. how opportun...

Abstract This study provides a systematic comparative analysis of seven common cross-national measures state capacity by focusing on three measurement issues: convergent validity, interchangeability, and case-specific disagreement. The author finds that the validity is high, but interchangeability low. means even highly correlated can lead to completely different statistical inferences. cause t...