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Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and of Social and Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. Christian List is Reader in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK. We thank Steven Brams, Dennis Mueller, Franz Dietrich and three anony...

This paper emphasises the importance of assessing measurement equivalence when using cross-national and longitudinal surveys. We illustrate how to test for measurement equivalence using multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) and clarify under what conditions both meaningful comparisons of construct means and relationships between constructs are possible. Using data from the Internatio...

As social scientists have investigated the political and social factors influencing public opinion in science-related policy debates, there has been growing interest in the implications of this research for public communication and outreach. Given the level of political polarization in the United States, much of the focus has been on partisan differences in public opinion, the strategies employ...

This study is a corpus-based study of interactional metadiscourse in natural and social science master theses. For this purpose, 30 natural and social science master theses in six disciplines were randomly selected out of the library of five universities. Five master theses were selected in each discipline, in a period of six years (2010-2016).This study analyzed only the discussion and conclus...