Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

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Volume 53, issue 6, 2019

Measurement of attitudes towards homosexuality: testing measurement invariance across European countries pp. 2685-2694

Jan Gromadzki

The role of social control in Brazilian homicide rates pp. 2695-2717

Sandro de Freitas Ferreira, Suzana Quinet de Andrade Bastos and Admir Antonio Betarelli Junior

A methodology for cross-national comparative focus group research: illustrations from discussions about political protest pp. 2719-2739

Maarten Johannes Bezouw, Anastasia Garyfallou, Ioana-Elena Oană and Sebastien Rojon

How do we tell authoritarian diffusion from illusion? Exploring methodological issues of qualitative research on authoritarian diffusion pp. 2741-2763

Thomas Ambrosio and Jakob Tolstrup

An alternative update of the two-step QCA procedure pp. 2765-2780

Tim Haesebrouck

Hysteresis of unemployment rates in Africa: new findings from Fourier ADF test pp. 2781-2795

Olaoluwa Yaya, Ahamuefula Ogbonna and Robert Mudida

The economic Gordian Knot of Brexit: an East and Southeast Asian perspective pp. 2797-2820

Mario Ruiz Estrada, Evangelos Koutronas and Donghyun Park

Italians’ general satisfaction and perception of the country’s priority problems: A regional analysis of the phenomenon and its evolution from 2000 to 2015 pp. 2821-2842

Domenico Tucci, Lorella Sicuro, Domenico Di Spalatro and Fabrizio Maturo

Food risk communication: analysis of the media coverage of food risk on Italian online daily newspapers pp. 2843-2866

Barbara Tiozzo, Anna Pinto, Federico Neresini, Stefano Sbalchiero, Nicoletta Parise, Mirko Ruzza and Licia Ravarotto

Modelling the relationship between financing by Islamic banking system and environmental quality: evidence from bootstrap autoregressive distributive lag with Fourier terms pp. 2867-2884

Sakiru Solarin

A cross-regional analysis of military expenditure, state fragility and economic growth in Africa pp. 2885-2915

Charles Saba and Nicholas Ngepah

Interpersonal communication, voting behavior and influence in election campaigns: a directional approach pp. 2917-2932

Moreno Mancosu

The anthropological and ethnographic approaches to social representations theory: a systematic meta-theoretical analysis of publications based on empirical studies pp. 2933-2955

Annamaria Silvana Rosa and Laura Arhiri

Correlation of military expenditures and economic growth: lessons for Romania pp. 2957-2968

Oana Ramona Lobont, Oana Ramona Glont, Leonardo Badea and Sorana Vatavu

The effect of physical factors on crowd walking behavior at religious gatherings pp. 2969-2982

Poojari Yugendar and K. V. R. Ravishankar

Putting ‘political’ back in political trust: an IRT test of the unidimensionality and cross-national equivalence of political trust measures pp. 2983-3002

T. W. G. Meer and E. Ouattara

Focus group methodology: some ethical challenges pp. 3003-3022

Julius Sim and Jackie Waterfield

Viewing the advantages and disadvantages of modern democratic political system from the political philosophy system of Confucianism in China pp. 3023-3032

Xin Luo Yang

Do interactions cancel associations of subjective well-being with individual-level socioeconomic characteristics? An exploratory analysis using the European Social Survey pp. 3033-3061

Takis Venetoklis

The power of the President: a quantitative narrative analysis of the Diary of an Italian head of state (2006–2013) pp. 3063-3095

Mauro Tebaldi, Marco Calaresu and Alberto Purpura

Does economic growth cause military expenditure to go up? Using MF-VAR model pp. 3097-3117

Feng-Li Lin and Mei-Chih Wang

Psychometric validation of Atest-EF and attention profile of students during physical education classes pp. 3119-3130

Jorge Santos, João Petrica, João Serrano, Marco Batista, Samuel Honório and Luís Maia

(Moral) philosophy and (moral) theology can function as (behavioural) science: a methodological framework for interdisciplinary research pp. 3131-3158

Fabio Zagonari

Retraction Note: Estimation of the most influential science and technology factors for economic growth forecasting by soft computing technique pp. 3159-3159

Dušan Marković, Igor Mladenović and Miloš Milovančević

Retraction Note: Determination of the most influential factors for number of patents prediction by adaptive neuro-fuzzy technique pp. 3161-3161

Miloš Milovančević, Dušan Marković, Vlastimir Nikolić and Igor Mladenović

Volume 53, issue 5, 2019

New challenges for services quality evaluation pp. 2273-2273

Eugenio Brentari, Tonio Battista, Corrado Crocetta and Biagio Simonetti

Management and performance of Non-Profit Institutions: finding new development trajectories—evidence from Italy pp. 2275-2290

Renato Civitillo, Paolo Ricci and Biagio Simonetti

K-means clustering of item characteristic curves and item information curves via functional principal component analysis pp. 2291-2304

Francesca Fortuna and Fabrizio Maturo

Business process management in hotels: with a focus on delivering quality guest service pp. 2305-2322

Ali İhsan Özdemir, Abdullah Çolak and Jerina Shmilli

Analysis of three-way non-symmetrical association of food concepts in cross-cultural marketing pp. 2323-2337

Rosaria Lombardo, Eric J. Beh and Luis Guerrero

Quality evaluation and preferences of healthcare services: the case of telemedicine in Sardinia pp. 2339-2351

Stefania Capecchi, Marta Meleddu and Manuela Pulina

An integrated algorithm for three-way compositional data pp. 2353-2370

Michele Gallo, Violetta Simonacci and Maria Anna Palma

High-order PLS path model for multi-group analysis: the prosumership service quality model pp. 2371-2384

Enrico Ciavolino, Sergio Salvatore, Piergiorgio Mossi and Gloria Lagetto

Foreign arrivals nowcasting in Italy with Google Trends data pp. 2385-2401

F. Antolini and L. Grassini

What influences teachers’ job satisfaction and how to improve, develop and reorganize the school activities associated with them pp. 2403-2419

Anna Crisci, Enrica Sepe and Pasqualina Malafronte

Family firm’s management composition: the role played by family members’ age in TMT and supervisor levels pp. 2421-2438

M. Carmen Díaz-Fernández, M. Rosario González-Rodríguez, Marek Pawlak and Biagio Simonetti

A latent class conjoint analysis for the Administrative Clerk figure: insights from ELECTUS pp. 2439-2450

Paolo Mariani, Andrea Marletta, Lucio Masserini and Mariangela Zenga

The residential real estate market in Italy: a spatio-temporal analysis pp. 2451-2472

Monica Palma, Claudia Cappello, Sandra De Iaco and Daniela Pellegrino

Multivariate approach to evaluate the relationship among geophysical and geochemical variables during an unrest period at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) pp. 2473-2489

Sergio Scippacercola, Zaccaria Petrillo, Annarita Mangiacapra and Stefano Caliro

Customer satisfaction evaluation by common component and specific weight analysis using a mixed coding system pp. 2491-2505

Pietro Amenta, Antonio Lucadamo and Antonello D’Ambra

Intriguing behavior when testing the impact of quotation marks usage in Google search results pp. 2507-2519

Bogdan Ileanu, Marcel Ausloos, Claudiu Herteliu and Marian Pompiliu Cristescu

How does public service motivation affect teacher self-reported performance in an education system? Evidence from an empirical analysis in Italy pp. 2521-2533

Pasquale Sarnacchiaro, Ida Camminatiello, Luigi D’Ambra and Raffaela Palma

Are stock price dynamics affected by financial analysts recommendations? Evidence from Italian green energy stocks pp. 2535-2544

Rosella Castellano and Annalisa Ferrari

Checking quality of sensory data via an agreement-based approach pp. 2545-2556

Amalia Vanacore and Maria Sole Pellegrino

Wannabe Israeli: immigrants wrestling with their identity pp. 2557-2574

Laura Dryjanska and Cheryl Zlotnick

Causality in the Social Sciences: a structural modelling framework pp. 2575-2588

Federica Russo, Guillaume Wunsch and Michel Mouchart

Using public opinion surveys to evaluate corruption in Europe: trends in the corruption items of 21 international survey projects, 1989–2017 pp. 2589-2610

Ilona Wysmułek

Economic downturns and compositional effects in regional population structures by age: a multi-temporal analysis in Greek regions, 1981–2017 pp. 2611-2633

Federico Benassi and Luca Salvati

The numbers of Intimate Partner Violence and femicide in Italy: methodological issues in Italian research pp. 2635-2645

Saveria Capecchi

Replication and preregistration pp. 2647-2652

Merton S. Krause

Do we have all the necessary data? The challenge of measuring populism through metaphors pp. 2653-2670

Ondřej Stulík

Scaling constructs with semantic networks pp. 2671-2683

James A. Danowski and Kenneth Riopelle

Volume 53, issue 4, 2019

Gauging fiscal worlds: how the EU countries balanced equality and wealth between 2007 and 2016 pp. 1675-1692

Alessia Damonte and Fedra Negri

A Cobb–Douglas type model with stochastic restrictions: formulation, local influence diagnostics and data analytics in economics pp. 1693-1719

Francisco J. A. Cysneiros, Víctor Leiva, Shuangzhe Liu, Carolina Marchant and Paulo Scalco

Job satisfaction as a determinant of employees’ optimal well-being in an instrumental variable approach pp. 1721-1742

Emiliano Sironi

Generalization of results and neoclassical rationality: unresolved controversies of behavioural economics methodology pp. 1743-1761

Robin Maialeh

Industrial development factors: a comprehensive analysis of United States of America, European Union and China pp. 1763-1821

Muhammad Jawad, Zaib Maroof and Munazza Naz

Is terrorism, poverty, and refugees the dark side of globalization? pp. 1823-1835

Mario Ruiz Estrada, Donghyun Park, Alam Khan and Muhammad Tahir

On the nonlinear relationship between energy consumption and economic development in China: new evidence from panel data threshold estimations pp. 1837-1857

Xiao-Ying Dong, Qiying Ran and Yu Hao

Estimation of voter transitions and the ecological fallacy pp. 1859-1874

Antonio Forcina and Davide Pellegrino

Two faces of the same coin? A comparative, global approach to corruption and socioeconomic development pp. 1875-1894

Kostas Rontos, Ioannis Vavouras, Maria Teresa Ciommi and Luca Salvati

Health progress and economic growth in the United States: the mixed frequency VAR analyses pp. 1895-1911

Yi-Hui Liu, Wei-Shiun Chang and Wen-Yi Chen

Cooperation, diffusion of technology and environmental protection: a new index pp. 1913-1940

Cristian Barra, Giovanna Bimonte and Luigi Senatore

Does environmental performance affect financial performance? Evidence from Chinese listed companies in heavily polluting industries pp. 1941-1958

Feng Shen, Yunwen Ma, Run Wang, Ningning Pan and Zhiyi Meng

Multidimensional characteristics and deforestation: an analysis for the Brazilian Legal Amazon pp. 1959-1979

Weslem Rodrigues Faria, Admir Antônio Betarelli Júnior and Rosa Lívia Gonçalves Montenegro

A quantitative model for the spread of online information pp. 1981-2001

Ping Jiang and Xiangbin Yan

An investigation of impact of research collaboration on academic performance in Italy pp. 2003-2040

Luigi Aldieri, Gennaro Guida, Maxim Kotsemir and Concetto Paolo Vinci

Looking for the sectoral interdependence: evidence from the Visegrad countries and China pp. 2041-2062

Ewa Cieślik

A structural equation model to assess the impact of agricultural research expenditure on multiple dimensions pp. 2063-2080

Alessandro Magrini, Fabio Bartolini, Alessandra Coli and Barbara Pacini

Identifying the ‘Fukushima Effect’ in Germany through policy actors’ responses: evidence from the G-GEPON 2 survey pp. 2081-2101

Manuela G. Hartwig and Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki

Setting research priorities in the field of emergency management: which piece of information are you willing to pay more? pp. 2103-2115

Carlo Drago and Matteo Ruggeri

Making a symbolic gesture: a qualitative examination of self-immolation in Iran pp. 2117-2130

Mozhgan Taban, Seyed Kazem Malakouti, Hadi Ranjbar, Mehrdad Eftekhar Ardebili, Seyed Abbas Motavalian, Mehran Zarghami, Habibolah Khazaie, Hamideh Mohammadi Farsani and Zahra Ghiasi

Exploring the Sukur cultural landscape in Adamawa State of Nigeria: a methodological discussion pp. 2131-2141

Eyisi Afamefuna and Emeka E. Okonkwo

Unmanned aerial vehicles research in Scopus: an analysis and visualization of publication activity and research collaboration at the country level pp. 2143-2173

Maxim Kotsemir

Women’s decision making power and child labor: evidence from Pakistan pp. 2175-2197

Muhammad Majeed and Faiza Kiran

Exploring the quantitive relationship between economic benefit and environmental constraint using an inexact chance-constrained fuzzy programming based industrial structure optimization model pp. 2199-2220

Yingxue Rao, Min Zhou, Chunxia Cao, Shukui Tan, Yan Song, Zuo Zhang, Deyi Dai, Guoliang Ou, Lu Zhang, Xin Nie, Aiping Deng and Zhuoma Cairen

Energy efficiency, renewable energy, economic growth: evidence from emerging market economies pp. 2221-2234

Yilmaz Bayar and Marius Dan Gavriletea

Globalisation and human development: Does export type matter? pp. 2235-2251

Azmat Gani

Sexual behavior patterns in online sexually explicit materials: a network analysis pp. 2253-2271

Yanyan Zhou, Bryant Paul, Vincent Malic and Jingyuan Yu

Volume 53, issue 3, 2019

Towards the operationalization of controversial news: a study of online news articles and reader comments during the 2017 presidential election in South Korea pp. 1097-1108

Chan Woo Kim, Hyejin Park, Yeon-Ok Lee and Han Woo Park

Two-step QCA revisited: the necessity of context conditions pp. 1109-1126

Carsten Q. Schneider

Blockchain, bank credit and SME financing pp. 1127-1140

Rui Wang, Zhangxi Lin and Robin Hang Luo

Sustainability, welfare and efficiency of nations pp. 1141-1163

Charles-Henri DiMaria

Bordered communities: the perception of insecurity in five European cities pp. 1165-1186

Sonia Stefanizzi and Valeria Verdolini

Subjective well-being among the elderly: A bibliometric analysis pp. 1187-1207

Miha Dominko and Miroslav Verbič

The role of human capital in identifying the drivers of product and process innovation: empirical investigation from Italy pp. 1209-1238

Luigi Aldieri, Cristian Barra and Concetto Paolo Vinci

Fear in the West: a sentiment analysis using a computer-readable “Fear Index” pp. 1239-1261

Robert Hogenraad

Recursive residuals for linear mixed models pp. 1263-1274

Ahmed Bani-Mustafa, K. M. Matawie, C. F. Finch, Amjad Al-Nasser and Enrico Ciavolino

The luck of being of the right gender and color: a detailed discussion about the wage gaps in the Brazilian manufacturing industry pp. 1275-1300

Flávio Kauê Fiuza-Moura, Katy Maia, Solange Cassia Inforzato de Souza, Magno Rogério Gomes and Paulo Mourão

Publishing? You can count on knowledge, experience, and expectations pp. 1301-1324

Paulo Lopes Henriques, Carla Curado, Mírian Oliveira and Antônio Carlos Gastaud Maçada

Analysis of China’s policy effect on poverty alleviation: evidence from Chongqing in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region pp. 1325-1345

Min Zhu, Chuanmin Shuai, Xiaoyan Wang, Zhihui Leng and Fan Zhang

A multidimensional measure of social origin: theoretical perspectives, operationalization and empirical application in the field of educational inequality research pp. 1347-1367

Pia Nicoletta Blossfeld

Predicting general election outcomes: campaigns and changing voter knowledge at the 2017 general election in England pp. 1369-1389

Ron Johnston, Todd Hartman and Charles Pattie

Determinants of industrial development: a panel analysis of South Asian economies pp. 1391-1419

Zaib Maroof, Shahzad Hussain, Muhammad Jawad and Munazza Naz

A comparison of five reflective–formative estimation approaches: reconsideration and recommendations for tourism research pp. 1421-1458

Jun-Hwa Cheah, Hiram Ting, T. Ramayah, Mumtaz Ali Memon, Tat-Huei Cham and Enrico Ciavolino

Comparative advantages of China’s wind energy products: a Belt-and-Road perspective pp. 1459-1478

Zhihui Leng, Jing Shuai, Fubin Huang, Zihan Wang and Chuanmin Shuai

Crisis? What crisis? Measuring economic crisis in political science pp. 1479-1493

Suthan Krishnarajan

Randomness is problematic for social science research purposes pp. 1495-1504

Merton S. Krause

In search of FDI horizontal spillovers in China: evidence from meta-analysis pp. 1505-1527

Shi He, Yum K. Kwan and Hongzhong Fan

The information revolution, innovation diffusion and economic growth: an examination of causal links in European countries pp. 1529-1563

Rudra P. Pradhan, Mak Arvin, Mahendhiran Nair, Sara E. Bennett and John H. Hall

Dusk for the pyramid-shaped bureaucracy: examining the shape of the U.S. federal bureaucracy in the twenty first century pp. 1565-1585

Seejeen Park

Gender, public management and organizational performance: evidence from Indonesian public schools pp. 1587-1609

Suhaeniti and Sangyub Ryu

Analysis of standard vocabulary use of the open government data: the case of the public data portal of Korea pp. 1611-1622

Haklae Kim

Sociological explanation and mixed methods: the example of the Titanic pp. 1623-1643

Jörg Stolz, Anaïd Lindemann and Jean-Philippe Antonietti

Gender invariance of dignity in non-terminal elderly patients with chronic diseases: a multicentric study pp. 1645-1656

Fabio Ferretti, Andrea Pozza, Maurilio Pallassini, Lorenzo Righi, Fulvia Marini, Sabrina Adami and Anna Coluccia

A multilevel structural equation modelling approach to study segregation of deprivation: an application to Bolivia pp. 1657-1674

Filippo Temporin

Volume 53, issue 2, 2019

An investigation of effective factors on children’s growth failure in Iran using multilevel models pp. 553-560

A. Azarbar, Y. Zhang and S. Nadarajah

Energy sources choice and environmental sustainability disputes: an evolutional graph model approach pp. 561-581

Sharafat Ali, Haiyan Xu, Abul Al-Amin and Najid Ahmad

Statistical model for earthquake economic loss estimation using GDP and DPI: a case study from Iran pp. 583-598

Mahdi Moudi, Shiyu Yan, Bahador Bahramimianrood, Xiaoping Li and Liming Yao

Heterophily in social groups formation: a social network analysis pp. 599-619

Oriol Barranco, Carlos Lozares and Dafne Muntanyola-Saura

Role of women’s empowerment in improving farmer’s livelihood: empirical evidence from China pp. 621-639

Yu Shuai, Chuan-min Shuai, Wen-jing Li and Fu-bin Huang

A name classification method using the I Ching name configurations for Taiwan local elections pp. 641-651

Li-Shin Ho and Hsuan-Yi Chen

Developing dynamic organizational theories; three system dynamics based research strategies pp. 653-666

Vincent de Gooyert

On the relationship between weather and Agricultural Commodity Index in India: a study with reference to Dhaanya of NCDEX pp. 667-683

Chinnadurai Kathiravan, Selvam Murugesan, Desti Kannaiah, Kasilingam Lingaraja and Vadivel Thanikachalam

Revisiting the trans-situationality of values in Schwartz’s Portrait Values Questionnaire pp. 685-711

Jacques de Wet, Daniela Wetzelhütter and Johann Bacher

Knowledge, technological convergence and economic growth: a dynamic panel data analysis of Middle East and North Africa and Latin America pp. 713-733

Fatma M. Utku-İsmihan

Sector, industry and inter-organizational movement statistics in the Stockholm Region: informing organizational growth models pp. 735-755

Hernan Mondani

Language and interaction: applying sociolinguistics to social network analysis pp. 757-774

David K. Diehl

Three-valued modal logic for theory construction with contradictory data pp. 775-789

Georg P. Mueller

Development dynamics: Pre and Post Brexit analysis of United Kingdom pp. 791-811

Muhammad Jawad, Zaib Maroof and Munazza Naz

Willingness to pay for ecological function regions protection based on a choice experiment method: a case study of the Shiwandashan nature reserve pp. 813-829

Xin Nie, Qian Chen, Ting Xiao and Han Wang

Disciplinary homogeneity in university departments following the Gelmini law: an exploratory analysis through social networks pp. 831-857

Eugenia Nissi and Fabrizio Muratore

Extremal properties of the Theil and Gini measures of inequality pp. 859-869

Bogdan Oancea and Dan Pirjol

Implementing open government: a qualitative comparative analysis of digital platforms in France, Italy and United Kingdom pp. 871-896

Emiliana Blasio and Donatella Selva

An integrative approach to measurement: focus groups as a survey pretest pp. 897-913

Jennifer Cyr

Wellbeing indicators affecting female entrepreneurship in OECD countries pp. 915-933

G. Ribes-Giner, I. Moya-Clemente, R. Cervelló-Royo and M. R. Perello-Marin

Global mapping of scientific information exchange using altmetric data pp. 935-955

Hyo Chan Park, Jonghee M. Youn and Han Woo Park

Integrating parametric and non-parametric multivariate analysis of urban growth and commuting patterns in a European metropolitan area pp. 957-979

Mariateresa Ciommi, Francesco M. Chelli and Luca Salvati

Half a century of Quality & Quantity: a bibliometric review pp. 981-1020

Alicia Mas-Tur, Nikunja Mohan Modak, José M. Merigó, Norat Roig-Tierno, Massimiliano Geraci and Vittorio Capecchi

Can economic development boost the active female labor force? pp. 1021-1036

Chi-Wei Su, Zheng-Zheng Li, Ran Tao and Oana-Ramona Lobonţ

Students’ opinions on teaching and services provided by the Italian Universities: a proposal for a new evaluation scheme pp. 1037-1050

Bruno Bertaccini, Antonio Giusti and Alessandra Petrucci

Fixed and random effects models: making an informed choice pp. 1051-1074

Andrew Bell, Malcolm Fairbrother and Kelvyn Jones

The financial sustainability of Portuguese Private Institutions of Social Solidarity: are the critical regions preserved from the fade? pp. 1075-1092

Paulo Mourão and Luis Gonçalves

Retraction Note: Analyzing of innovations influence on economic growth by fuzzy system pp. 1093-1093

Igor Mladenović, Miloš Milovančević and Svetlana Sokolov-Mladenović

Retraction Note: Prediction of economic growth by extreme learning approach based on science and technology transfer pp. 1095-1096

Petra Karanikić, Igor Mladenović, Svetlana Sokolov-Mladenović and Meysam Alizamir

Volume 53, issue 1, 2019

New forms of citizen participation using SNS: an empirical approach pp. 1-17

Yeon-Tae Choi and Gyeong-Hoan Kwon

Religion and ethnicity at work: a study of British Muslim women’s labour market performance pp. 19-47

Sami Miaari, Nabil Khattab and Ron Johnston

Effect of corporate social responsibility on corporate tax avoidance: evidence from a matching approach pp. 49-67

Chih-Wen Mao

Teachers’ stereotypes about secondary school students: the case of Germany pp. 69-89

Daria Nolkemper, Hasan Aydin and Michel Knigge

Does Bitcoin bubble burst? pp. 91-105

Zheng-Zheng Li, Ran Tao, Chi-Wei Su and Oana-Ramona Lobonţ

The many roads to Rome: family resemblance concepts in the social sciences pp. 107-130

Rodrigo Barrenechea and Isabel Castillo

Quality of life and its association among older people in rural Vietnam pp. 131-141

Thang Tien Nguyen, Ngoc Bich Le, Lan Hoang Vu and Anh Vu Le

Social network evolution in creative process of CNPD teams: a case study of Chinese companies pp. 143-181

Wei Zhang, Yongli Li, Wenyao Zhang and Shengli Dai

Do information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to health outcomes? An empirical analysis pp. 183-206

Muhammad Majeed and Farzana Naheed Khan

The Stackelberg differential game for counter-terrorism pp. 207-220

Abd El-Monem A. Megahed

Data generation methods across the empirical sciences: differences in the study phenomena’s accessibility and the processes of data encoding pp. 221-246

Jana Uher

Pre and post effects of Brexit polling on United Kingdom economy: an econometrics analysis of transactional change pp. 247-267

Muhammad Jawad and Munazza Naz

A discussion of the two different aspects of privacy protection in indirect questioning designs pp. 269-282

Andreas Quatember

The effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy shocks on U.S. inequality: the role of uncertainty pp. 283-295

Goodness C. Aye, Matthew Clance and Rangan Gupta

Ideological congruency, social group linkage or the best-evaluated party of all? Why partisans identify with a political party pp. 297-313

Sabrina J. Mayer

Chinese growth and dilemmas: modelling energy consumption, CO2 emissions and growth in China pp. 315-338

Najid Ahmad, Liangsheng Du, Xian-Liang Tian and Jianlin Wang

The relationship between the economic development of nations and the adoption of green initiatives by companies: a statistical study on 105 countries pp. 339-361

Marek Ćwiklicki, Łukasz Jabłoński, Riccardo Sartori and Marius Dan Gavriletea

Big data, qualitative style: a breadth-and-depth method for working with large amounts of secondary qualitative data pp. 363-376

Emma Davidson, Rosalind Edwards, Lynn Jamieson and Susie Weller

Renewable and non-renewable energy and trade into developed and developing countries pp. 377-387

Fethi Amri

Patterns and evolution of consumer debt: evidence from latent transition models pp. 389-415

Piotr Bialowolski

The welfare effects of fiscal decentralization: a simple model and evidence from China pp. 417-434

Liangliang Liu, Donghong Ding and Jun He

Semantic differential for the twenty-first century: scale relevance and uncertainty entering the semantic space pp. 435-448

Jan Stoklasa, Tomáš Talášek and Jana Stoklasová

Does life satisfaction matter for pro-environmental behavior? Empirical evidence from China General Social Survey pp. 449-469

Erda Wang and Nannan Kang

Comparing survey data and administrative records on gross earnings: nonreporting, misreporting, interviewer presence and earnings inequality pp. 471-491

Peter Valet, Jule Adriaans and Stefan Liebig

A size-biased Ishita distribution and application to real data pp. 493-512

Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari, Amjad Al-Nasser and Enrico Ciavolino

Drawing the optimal monetary poverty lines based on empirical data: an application to Spain pp. 513-527

Antonio M. Salcedo and Gregorio Izquierdo Llanes

Does centrality of importing countries affect export prices in the global trade? pp. 529-551

Vittorio Carlei, Francesca Affortunato, Alessandro Marra and Marco Brogi