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  • 17 - Rival Strategies of Measurement Validation

  • from Part IV - Measurement Validity
  • Edited by Zachary Elkins, University of Texas, Austin
  • David Collier, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book:
    Working with Concepts
    Published online:
    22 April 2026
    Print publication:
    09 April 2026, pp 357-384
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    The challenge of finding appropriate tools for measurement validation is an abiding concern in political science. This chapter considers four traditions of validation, using examples from cross-national research on democracy: the levels-of-measurement approach, structural-equation modeling with latent variables, the pragmatic tradition, and the case-based method. Methodologists have sharply disputed the merits of alternative traditions. The chapter encourages scholars – and certainly analysts of democracy – to pay more attention to these disputes and to consider strengths and weaknesses in the validation tools they adopt. An appendix summarizes the evaluation of six democracy data sets from the perspective of alternative approaches to validation.