Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

1967 - 2025

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Volume 51, issue 6, 2017

Examining social inequalities in urban public leisure spaces provision using principal component analysis pp. 2409-2420

Qian Wang and Zhigao Zhang

Multi-map comparison for group concept mapping: an approach for examining conceptual congruence through spatial correspondence pp. 2421-2439

Scott R. Rosas

How to manage a city’s image using the brand concept map and network analysis: a case of Seoul pp. 2441-2456

Cunhyeong Ci and Sujin Choi

How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/1968) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys pp. 2457-2473

Rosalind Edwards, Ann Phoenix, David Gordon, Karen Bell, Heather Elliott and Eldin Fahmy

Health inequity and health outcome: a causal linkage study of low and middle income countries pp. 2475-2488

Subhalaxmi Mohapatra

The comovement between venture capital and innovation in China: what are the implications? pp. 2489-2506

Jun Wen, Xiu-Yun Yang, Gen-Fu Feng, Bo Sui and Chun-Ping Chang

Not only correlations: a different approach for investigating the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and job performance based on workers and employees’ perception pp. 2507-2519

Riccardo Sartori, Arianna Costantini, Andrea Ceschi and Andrea Scalco

Demographic structure and monetary policy effectiveness: evidence from Taiwan pp. 2521-2544

Wen-Yi Chen

Goodness of fit measures for logistic regression model: an application for students’ evaluations of university teaching pp. 2545-2554

Biagio Simonetti, Pasquale Sarnacchiaro and M. Rosario González Rodríguez

Gender digital divide in a patriarchal society: what can we learn from Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition? pp. 2555-2576

Wun-Ji Jiang and Yir-Hueih Luh

From college to labor market: a transition indicator for Italian universities pp. 2577-2604

Massimiliano Agovino and Francesco Busato

Is extreme response style domain specific? Findings from two studies in four countries pp. 2605-2622

Elke Cabooter, Bert Weijters, Alain Beuckelaer and Eldad Davidov

Sentiment analysis of political communication: combining a dictionary approach with crowdcoding pp. 2623-2646

Martin Haselmayer and Marcelo Jenny

Citizen, mainstream and peace journalism relationship in covering Syria events: a content analysis of Aljazeera pp. 2647-2664

Nasser Khasib and Metin Ersoy

Spatial regimes in regional European growth: an iterated spatially weighted regression approach pp. 2665-2684

M. Simona Andreano, Roberto Benedetti and Paolo Postiglione

A new approach for the quantification of qualitative measures of economic expectations pp. 2685-2706

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

The causal relationship between land urbanization quality and economic growth: evidence from capital cities in China pp. 2707-2723

Danning Du

Role of technology and management in tolerance and reconciliation education pp. 2725-2736

Fahriye Altinay, Gokmen Dagli and Zehra Altınay

Clusters of cultures: diversity in meaning of family value and gender role items across Europe pp. 2737-2760

Eva Vlimmeren, Guy B. D. Moors and John P. T. M. Gelissen

A two-step approach for the analysis of hybrids in comparative social policy analysis: a nuanced typology of childcare between policies and regimes pp. 2761-2780

Rossella Ciccia

Indirect welfare regime practices and transformation of social security system of Turkey after 1980 pp. 2781-2792

Füsun Kökalan Çımrın and Zafer Durdu

The impact of dependence among voters’ preferences with partial indifference pp. 2793-2812

Erik Friese, William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley and Achill Schürmann

Re-conceptualize mixed methods research: introducing a new conceptual framework pp. 2813-2829

Haiying Long and Claudius R. Rodgers

Concerns about body change behaviors, and construction of flexible masculinity among Iranian students pp. 2831-2846

Saideh Garousi, Rouhollah Khajeh Dolatabad and Behshid Garrusi

Addressing quality in mixed methods research: a review and recommendations for a future agenda pp. 2847-2863

Sergi Fàbregues and José F. Molina-Azorín

Identifying the key barriers and their interrelationships impeding the university technology transfer in Taiwan: a multi-stakeholder perspective pp. 2865-2884

Yung-Chi Shen

Volume 51, issue 5, 2017

Configurational comparative research methodologies pp. 1921-1923

Norat Roig-Tierno, Kun-Huang Huarng and Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano

Causal complexity for passengers’ intentions to re-ride pp. 1925-1937

Yu-Shan Lin

Background factors to innovation performance: results of an empirical study using fsQCA methodology pp. 1939-1953

Daniel Palacios-Marqués, Salvador Roig-Dobón and Irene Comeig

Technological innovation versus non-technological innovation: different conditions in different regional contexts? pp. 1955-1967

Jose-Maria Garcia Alvarez-Coque, Francisco Mas-Verdú and Norat Roig-Tierno

Elderly and technology tools: a fuzzyset qualitative comparative analysis pp. 1969-1982

Rana Mostaghel and Pejvak Oghazi

Managing the front-end phase of process innovation under conditions of high uncertainty pp. 1983-2000

Vinit Parida, Pankaj C. Patel, Johan Frishammar and Joakim Wincent

Stress at the top: myth or fact? Causal explanations from a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) pp. 2001-2017

Maria Guedes, Helena Martins Gonçalves and Vítor da Conceição Gonçalves

Barriers to women entrepreneurship. Different methods, different results? pp. 2019-2034

Ana Tur-Porcar, Alicia Mas-Tur and José Antonio Belso

Using qualitative approach to forecasting regime switches pp. 2035-2048

Kun-Huang Huarng and Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu

Selecting explanatory factors of voting decisions by means of fsQCA and ANN pp. 2049-2061

Marcos Vizcaíno-González, Juan Pineiro-Chousa and Jorge Sainz

A review of integrated QCA and statistical analyses pp. 2063-2083

Johannes Meuer and Christian Rupietta

Entrepreneurial attributes for success in the small hotel sector: a fuzzy-set QCA approach pp. 2085-2100

Andrea Rey-Martí, J. Augusto Felício and Ricardo Rodrigues

Fuzzy logic programming based knowledge analysis for qualitative comparative analysis pp. 2101-2113

Pushkin Kachroo, Anjala Krishen and Shaurya Agarwal

An alternative graphical modeling for economics: Econographicology pp. 2115-2139

Mario Ruiz Estrada

How to refuse a vote on the EU? The case against the referendum in the House of Commons (1974–2010) pp. 2141-2162

Aude Bicquelet and Helen Addison

A recommendation for applied researchers to substantiate the claim that ordinal variables are the product of underlying bivariate normal distributions pp. 2163-2170

Jarl K. Kampen and Arie Weeren

Simulating population development under new fertility policy in China based on system dynamics model pp. 2171-2189

Pengkun Wu, Qing Wu and Yudan Dou

Structure of the labour market and wage inequality: evidence from European countries pp. 2191-2218

Rosalia Castellano, Gaetano Musella and Gennaro Punzo

Measurement in social research: some misunderstandings pp. 2219-2243

Alessandro Bruschi

Gender discrimination in education, health, and labour market: a voice for equality pp. 2245-2266

Haroon Ur Rashid Khan, Anwar Khan, Khalid Zaman, Agha Amad Nabi, Sanil S. Hishan and Talat Islam

Fiscal decentralization and China’s provincial economic growth: a panel data analysis for China’s tax sharing system pp. 2267-2289

Zao Sun, Chun-Ping Chang and Yu Hao

Erratum to: Fiscal decentralization and China’s provincial economic growth: a panel data analysis for China’s tax sharing system pp. 2291-2291

Zao Sun, Chun-Ping Chang and Yu Hao

The impact of education on fertility in Italy. Changes across cohorts and south–north differences pp. 2293-2317

Roberto Impicciatore and Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna

Confirmation bias: methodological causes and a palliative response pp. 2319-2335

Adam Fforde

A framework for congruence analysis in comparative historical analysis of political change pp. 2337-2355

Jørgen Møller

Proposal of a composite indicator of job quality based on a measure of weighted distances pp. 2357-2374

Giovanna Boccuzzo and Licia Maron

Dealing with heterogeneity in ordinal responses pp. 2375-2393

Stefania Capecchi and Domenico Piccolo

Which factors affect the duration of hot topics on social media platforms? pp. 2395-2407

Jinlou Zhao, Hongyu Gao, Yongli Li and Jiaguo Liu

Volume 51, issue 4, 2017

Microfinance and savings among the poor: evidence from Bangladesh microfinance sector pp. 1435-1448

Shamima Nasrin, Angathevar Baskaran and Rajah Rasiah

Critical appraisal of mixed methods research studies in a systematic scoping review on plural policing: assessing the impact of excluding inadequately reported studies by means of a sensitivity analysis pp. 1449-1468

Antoinette Verhage and Dominique Boels

Can civilian disability pensions overcome the poverty issue? A DSGE analysis for Italian data pp. 1469-1491

Massimiliano Agovino and Maria Ferrara

Integrating corporate social responsibility and profitability into best practice selection: the case of large Taiwanese firms pp. 1493-1512

Fu-Chiang Yang

Inferential confidence intervals for fuzzy analysis of teaching satisfaction pp. 1513-1529

Donata Marasini, Piero Quatto and Enrico Ripamonti

European economies in terms of energy dependence pp. 1531-1548

Anna Bluszcz

Item response theory requires logically unjustifiable assumptions pp. 1549-1561

Merton S. Krause

Corporate social responsibility, media attention and firm value: empirical research on Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 1563-1577

Dayuan Li, Linna Xin, Xiaohong Chen and Shenggang Ren

Quality and quantity in the innovation process of firms: a statistical approach pp. 1579-1591

Massimiliano Agovino, Luigi Aldieri, Antonio Garofalo and Concetto Paolo Vinci

Categorical network models for systemic risk measurement pp. 1593-1609

Paola Cerchiello and Paolo Giudici

Stock market’s reaction to self-disclosure of work safety accidents: an empirical study in China pp. 1611-1626

Zhe Ouyang, Jiuchang Wei and Dingtao Zhao

Using a discretized measure of academic performance to approximate primary and secondary effects in inequality of educational opportunity pp. 1627-1643

Anning Hu

Drawing democracy: popular conceptions of democracy in Germany pp. 1645-1661

Lina Silveira and Horst-Alfred Heinrich

Determinants of green competitive advantage: the roles of green knowledge sharing, green dynamic capabilities, and green service innovation pp. 1663-1685

Yu-Hsien Lin and Yu-Shan Chen

Disaggregated military expenditure and the debt level in Nigeria pp. 1687-1705

Sakiru Solarin

The strong referendum paradox pp. 1707-1731

Hayrullah Dindar, Gilbert Laffond and Jean Lainé

War economy and pleasure: assessing the effects of military expenditure on tourism growth pp. 1733-1754

Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Khalid Zaman, Abdullah Mohammed Aldakhil and Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro

The effects of various motives to save money on the propensity of Italian households to allocate an unexpected inheritance towards consumption pp. 1755-1775

Luca Zanin

Empowering rural women in Pakistan: empirical evidence from Southern Punjab pp. 1777-1787

Muhammad Abrar-ul-haq, Mohd Razani Mohd Jali and Gazi Md Nural Islam

Congestion costs and differences in the regional distribution of FDI in China pp. 1789-1809

Hongzhong Fan, Shah Muhammad Kamran, Mingliang Li and Qiliang Zhou

Globalization and terrorism: an overview pp. 1811-1819

Alam Khan and Mario Ruiz Estrada

The nexus of economic growth, military expenditures, and income inequality pp. 1821-1842

Ünal Töngür and Adem Elveren

Suicide and socioeconomic determinants in Canada: beyond morality and philosophy pp. 1843-1858

Evan Lau, Siti Nur Zahara Hamzah, Sandra Chia Chia Tan and Biagio Simonetti

Longitudinal dynamics of the cultural diffusion of Kpop on YouTube pp. 1859-1875

Weiai Wayne Xu, Ji-young Park and Han Woo Park

Measuring corruption in Europe: public opinion surveys and composite indices pp. 1877-1900

Kristyna Chabova

Erratum to: Measuring corruption in Europe: public opinion surveys and composite indices pp. 1901-1901

Kristyna Chabova

Are quality indicators predictive of compensated injury claims? pp. 1903-1919

Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio

Volume 51, issue 3, 2017

Versatile networks in combining qualitative and quantitative data pp. 959-961

Weiai Wayne Xu and Han Woo Park

Decomposing the Triple-Helix synergy into the regional innovation systems of Norway: firm data and patent networks pp. 963-988

Øivind Strand, Inga Ivanova and Loet Leydesdorff

Triple helix dynamics of South Korea’s innovation system: a network analysis of inter-regional technological collaborations pp. 989-1007

Jungwon Yoon and Han Woo Park

A semantic annotation framework for scientific publications pp. 1009-1025

Yuchul Jung

Open data in Nepal: a webometric network analysis pp. 1027-1043

Srijana Acharya and Han Woo Park

Representations of Australia in South Korean online news: a qualitative and quantitative approach utilizing Leximancer and Korean keywords in context pp. 1045-1064

Damien Spry and Tim Dwyer

Analysis of technological innovation based on citation information pp. 1065-1091

Gabjin Oh, Ho-Yong Kim and Ayoung Park

How do sociodemographic and structural similarities explain viewing pattern similarity by channel type? Insight from a network analytic approach pp. 1093-1112

Sujin Choi

Uncovering stakeholders in public–private relations on social media: a case study of the 2015 Volkswagen scandal pp. 1113-1131

Kyujin Jung, Kenneth Chilton and Jesus N. Valero

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Estimation of the most influential science and technology factors for economic growth forecasting by soft computing technique pp. 1133-1146

Dušan Marković, Igor Mladenović and Miloš Milovančević

Effects of anxious emotions on the behavioral problems of Chinese children with learning difficulties pp. 1147-1165

I-Jun Chen, Yu Wu and Bing-Si Wei

A multidimensional IRT approach for dimensionality assessment of standardised students’ tests in mathematics pp. 1167-1182

Michela Gnaldi

Historical path of traditional and modern idea of ‘conscious universe’ pp. 1183-1195

Mehrnaz Monzavi, Mohd Hazim Shah Abdul Murad, Matin Rahnama and Shahaboddin Shamshirband

Quantifying the economic cost of children: a note on intertemporal equivalence scales pp. 1197-1205

Gianni Betti

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Determination of the most influential factors for number of patents prediction by adaptive neuro-fuzzy technique pp. 1207-1216

Miloš Milovančević, Dušan Marković, Vlastimir Nikolić and Igor Mladenović

Does measurement invariance hold for the official Mexican multidimensional poverty measure? A state-level analysis 2012 pp. 1217-1241

Hector Ernesto Najera

A cross-country panel approach to exploring the determinants of educational equity through PISA data pp. 1243-1260

Tommaso Agasisti, Sergio Longobardi and Andrea Regoli

Artificial neural networks and their potentialities in analyzing budget health data: an application for Italy of what-if theory pp. 1261-1276

Paolo Massimo Buscema, Guido Maurelli, Francesco Saverio Mennini, Lara Gitto, Simone Russo, Matteo Ruggeri, Silvia Coretti and Americo Cicchetti

Erratum to: Artificial neural networks and their potentialities in analyzing budget health data: an application for Italy of what-if theory pp. 1277-1278

Paolo Massimo Buscema, Guido Maurelli, Francesco Saverio Mennini, Lara Gitto, Simone Russo, Matteo Ruggeri, Silvia Coretti and Americo Cicchetti

Rhetorical manifestation of institutional transformation pp. 1279-1296

Stefano Sbalchiero and Maria Stella Righettini

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing of innovations influence on economic growth by fuzzy system pp. 1297-1304

Igor Mladenović, Miloš Milovančević and Svetlana Sokolov-Mladenović

Learning organization at higher education institutions in the EU: proposal for implementing philosophy of learning organization—results from research pp. 1305-1320

Helena Čierna, Erika Sujová, Patrycja Hąbek, Elena Horská and Zuzana Kapsdorferová

Making use of Internet interactivity to propose a dynamic presentation of web questionnaires pp. 1321-1336

Melanie Revilla, Carlos Ochoa and Albert Turbina

The dynamic of the gender gap in the European labour market in the years of economic crisis pp. 1337-1357

Rosalia Castellano and Antonella Rocca

Spurious relationships arising from aggregate variables in linear regression pp. 1359-1379

David J. Armor, Chenna Reddy Cotla and Thomas Stratmann

Terrorist economic impact evaluation (TEIE) model: the case of Pakistan pp. 1381-1394

Alam Khan and Zarinah Yusof

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Prediction of economic growth by extreme learning approach based on science and technology transfer pp. 1395-1401

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

Group concept mapping methodology: toward an epistemology of group conceptualization, complexity, and emergence pp. 1403-1416

Scott R. Rosas

How does inflation determine inflation uncertainty? A Chinese perspective pp. 1417-1434

Chi-Wei Su, Hui Yu, Hsu-Ling Chang and Xiao-Lin Li

Volume 51, issue 2, 2017

Editorial pp. 479-480

Matilde Bini, Maurizio Carpita, Corrado Crocetta and Michele Gallo

The relation between the mean difference and the standard deviation in continuous distribution models pp. 481-507

Giovanni Girone, Antonella Massari and Fabio Manca

Quality service in banking: a longitudinal approach pp. 509-523

Lucio Masserini, Caterina Liberati and Paolo Mariani

An evaluation study on students’ international mobility experience pp. 525-544

Alessandra Amendola and Marialuisa Restaino

Cultural displacement as a lever to global-ready student profiles: results from a longitudinal study on International Lifelong Learning Programs (LLP) pp. 545-563

Maria Giovanna Onorati, Francesco D. d’Ovidio and Laura Antonucci

Statistical tools for student evaluation of academic educational quality pp. 565-579

Violetta Simonacci and Michele Gallo

A diagram to detect serial dependencies: an application to transport time series pp. 581-594

Luca Bagnato, Lucio De Capitani and Antonio Punzo

The relation between the mean difference and the mean deviation in 11 continuous distribution models pp. 595-615

Angela Maria D’Uggento, Giovanni Girone and Claudia Marin

Modeling university student satisfaction: the case of the humanities and social studies degree programs pp. 617-628

Marcella Corduas and Alfonso Piscitelli

Weighted log ratio analysis by means of Poisson factor models: a case study to evaluate the quality of the public services offered to the citizens pp. 629-639

Antonello D’Ambra, Anna Crisci and Luigi D’Ambra

Classification trees for multivariate ordinal response: an application to Student Evaluation Teaching pp. 641-655

Mariangela Sciandra, Antonella Plaia and Vincenza Capursi

Developments in Higher-Order PLS-PM for the building of a system of Composite Indicators pp. 657-674

Rosanna Cataldo, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Natale Carlo Lauro and Marina Marino

An integrated strategy for the analysis of student evaluation of teaching: from descriptive measures to explanatory models pp. 675-691

Michele La Rocca, Maria Lucia Parrella, Ilaria Primerano, Isabella Sulis and Maria Prosperina Vitale

Effectiveness of non-selective evaluation test scores for predicting first-year performance in university career: a zero-inflated beta regression approach pp. 693-708

Lucio Masserini, Matilde Bini and Monica Pratesi

Individual motivations and thematically-oriented film festival attendance: an empirical study based on spectators of the Artecinema international documentary festival in Naples (Italy) pp. 709-727

Salvatore Ercolano, Giuseppe Gaeta and Benedetta Parenti

Structural equation modelling: a silver bullet for evaluating public service motivation pp. 729-744

Raffaela Palma and Enrica Sepe

Measuring the perceived value of rural tourism: a field survey in the western Sicilian agritourism sector pp. 745-763

Aurelio Scaglione and Daria Mendola

Treatment of “don’t know” responses in the consumers’ perceptions about sustainability in the agri-food sector pp. 765-778

Maria Iannario, Marica Manisera and Paola Zuccolotto

A mixed-methods approach for analysing social support and social anchorage of single mothers’ personal networks pp. 779-797

Rosaria Lumino, Giancarlo Ragozini, Marijtje Duijn and Maria Prosperina Vitale

Phytoplankton community to assess the environmental status of the Adriatic Sea via non-linear partial least squares regression pp. 799-812

Olga Mangoni, Rosaria Lombardo, Ida Camminatiello, Francesca Margiotta, Augusto Passarelli and Maria Saggiomo

Robust partial least squares regression for the evaluation of justice court delay pp. 813-827

Ida Cammnitiello, Rosaria Lombardo and Jean-François Durand

From Euclidean distances to APC models pp. 829-846

Gustavo De Santis and Massimo Mucciardi

Bootstrap confidence intervals for biodiversity measures based on Gini index and entropy pp. 847-858

Nicola Pesenti, Piero Quatto and Enrico Ripamonti

Defining subjects distance in hierarchical cluster analysis by copula approach pp. 859-872

Andrea Bonanomi, Marta Nai Ruscone and Silvia Angela Osmetti

Psychometric properties of the Italian adaptation of the Mor Barak et al. diversity climate scale pp. 873-890

Anna Paolillo, Margherita Pasini, Silvia A. Silva and Paola Magnano

Impact of microfinance on the non-monetary aspects of poverty: evidence from Pakistan pp. 891-902

Muhammad Ali Jibran Qamar, Sameen Masood and Muhammad Nasir

Positive perceptions and perceived control in families with children with intellectual disabilities: relationship to family quality of life pp. 903-918

Fina Ferrer, Rosa Vilaseca and Joan Guàrdia Olmos

Can technology provide a glimmer of hope for economic growth in the midst of chaos? A case of Zimbabwe pp. 919-939

Ronald Kumar, Peter Stauvermann and Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad

Comparing acquiescent and extreme response styles in face-to-face and web surveys pp. 941-958

Mingnan Liu, Frederick G. Conrad and Sunghee Lee

Volume 51, issue 1, 2017

A comparative simulation study of AR(1) estimators in short time series pp. 1-21

Tanja Krone, Casper J. Albers and Marieke E. Timmerman

Fuzzy measures of quality of life in Germany: a multidimensional and comparative approach pp. 23-34

Gianni Betti

Testing for unemployment hysteresis in Turkey: evidence from nonlinear unit root tests pp. 35-46

Burak Güriş, Burcu Yavuz Tiftikçigil and Muhammed Tıraşoğlu

Conformity through the mobile phone choices of the young French pp. 47-63

Germain Barré

Modeling the effects of energy consumption and urbanization on environmental pollution in South Asian countries: a nonparametric panel approach pp. 65-78

Mohd Irfan and Krishnendu Shaw

On the survival models for step-stress experiments based on fuzzy life time data pp. 79-91

Muhammad Shafiq and Muhammad Atif

Use of the analytic hierarchy process for complex assessment of the work environment pp. 93-101

Richard Hnilica, Martin Jankovský, Miroslav Dado, Valéria Messingerová, Marián Schwarz and Darina Veverková

The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification pp. 103-119

Barbara Fura and Qingfang Wang

Economic growth, FDI inflows and their impact on the environment: an empirical study for the MENA countries pp. 121-146

Mohamed Abdouli and Sami Hammami

Influence factors on settlement intention for floating population in urban area: a China study pp. 147-176

Shukui Tan, Yanan Li, Yan Song, Xiang Luo, Min Zhou, Lu Zhang and Bing Kuang

The U-shaped age–happiness relationship: real or methodological artifact? pp. 177-197

Ottar Hellevik

A stochastic equilibrium chance-constrained programming model for municipal solid waste management of the City of Dalian, China pp. 199-218

Min Zhou, Shasha Lu, Shukui Tan, Danping Yan, Guoliang Ou, Dianfeng Liu, Xiang Luo, Yanan Li, Lu Zhang, Zuo Zhang and Xiangbo Zhu

The contribution of nuclear energy to economic growth in France: short and long run pp. 219-238

Mounir Ben Mbarek, Samia Nasreen and Rochdi Feki

The object detection logic of latent variable technologies pp. 239-259

Michael Maraun

Group-mean-centering independent variables in multi-level models is dangerous pp. 261-283

Jonathan Kelley, M. D. R. Evans, Jennifer Lowman and Valerie Lykes

Consensus measures for various informational bases. Three new proposals and two case studies from political science pp. 285-306

José Alcantud and María José M. Torrecillas

Macroeconomic impact of flexicurity on the integration of people with disabilities into the labour market. A two-regime spatial autoregressive analysis pp. 307-334

Massimiliano Agovino and Agnese Rapposelli

Who is responsible for economic failures? Self-serving bias and fundamental attribution error in political context pp. 335-350

Zeev Shtudiner, Galit Klein and Jeffrey Kantor

What impact has the economic crisis had on quality of life in Europe? A multidimensional and fuzzy approach pp. 351-364

Gianni Betti

Trade–Terrorist Evaluation Index (TTEi) pp. 365-375

Alam Khan and Zarinah Yusof

What distinguishes a novice from an expert mixed methods researcher? pp. 377-398

Timothy C. Guetterman

Application of the multiple streams model in analysing the new population policies agenda-setting in Iran pp. 399-412

Hasan Jafari, Abolghasem Pourreza, AbouAli Vedadhir and Ebrahim Jaafaripooyan

A return-to-work self-efficacy scale for workers with psychological or musculoskeletal work-related injuries pp. 413-424

Oliver Black, Malcolm R. Sim, Alexander Collie and Peter Smith

Comparison of two measures of work functioning in a population of claimants with physical and psychological injuries pp. 425-434

A. Chambers, P. M. Smith, M. R. Sim and A. D. LaMontagne

Fundamental characteristics and statistical analysis of ordinal variables: a review pp. 435-458

Michele Lalla

The perception of corruption in health: AutoCM methods for an international comparison pp. 459-477

Paolo Massimo Buscema, Lara Gitto, Simone Russo, Andrea Marcellusi, Federico Fiori, Guido Maurelli, Giulia Massini and Francesco Saverio Mennini