In this article, we discuss the results of a survey experiment designed to examine the impact of issue framing on the level of aversion to ethnic-targeted school policies in the Netherlands, in 2000 and 2005. Emphasizing the costs for Dutch children ...

Survey research on political efficacy is longstanding. In a number of countries efficacy has been measured using batteries of negatively worded “agree-disagree” statements. In this paper, we investigate the measurement properties of the Canadian variant ...

To examine whether starting a response scale with the positive or the negative categories affects response behavior, a split-ballot design using reverse forms of an 8-point scale assessing the subjective importance of job characteristics was used. ...

Vignette studies use short descriptions of situations or persons (vignettes) that are usually shown to respondents within surveys in order to elicit their judgments about these scenarios. By systematically varying the levels of theoretically important ...

The study presented here deals with two aspects of the validity of a factorial survey approach (). This technique is applied to the analysis of crime in everyday life from the perspective of a rational choice approach (