Dear colleagues,
The ESC working group on "Quantitative Methods in Criminology" (EQMC) and the ESA Research Network on "Quantitative Methods" (ESA RN21) welcome abstract submissions for presentations at the conference
"Modes, Measurement, Modelling: Achieving Equivalence in Quantitative Research"
in Mannheim, Germany, 24.-25. October 2014, hosted by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. We encourage submissions covering topics of the sessions below. Please also see the conference website http://www.gesis.org/qm2014 Please email your abstracts to the corresponding session organizers as well as cc to henning.best(at)gesis(dot)org by
15 August 2014
at the latest. Proposals should contain a title and an abstract of up to 200 words. You will be informed by August 31 regarding acceptance of the paper.
We especially encourage submissions covering topics of the following sessions: 1) Analyzing change using different longitudinal research designs (Tobias Gummer - Tobias.Gummer@gesis.org) 2) Testing for measurement invariance across cultures and longitudinally: Challenging various (newer) approaches empirically (Eldad Davidov & Peter Schmidt - davidov@soziologie.uzh.ch) 3) Latent Variable Approaches for Comparative Research: Methodology and Applications (Jochen Mayerl & Elmar Schlüter - Jochen.Mayerl@sowi.uni-kl.de ) 4) Beyond or only suitable for quasi-experimental designs? Matching techniques and social surveys (Andreas Haupt - andreas.haupt@kit.edu) 5) Achieving construct equivalence in cross-cultural research. Methodological challenges and innovative approaches (Wolfgang Aschauer & Martin Weichbold - Wolfgang.Aschauer@sbg.ac.at) 6) Strategies of harmonization with pooled cross-sectional datasets (Ferruccio Biolcati-Rinaldi, Markus Quandt & Cristiano Vezzoni - ferruccio.biolcati@unimi.it) 7) Multilevel Models for Comparative Longitudinal Survey Data (Alexander Schmidt-Catran & Malcolm Fairbrother - alexander.schmidt@wiso.uni-koeln.de) 8) Evaluating and Adjusting Measurement Non-Equivalence in Mixed-Mode Surveys (Thomas Klausch -l.t.klausch@uu.nl ) 9) Experimental Designs in the Social Sciences: Types, Modes and Equivalence (Stefanie Eifler & Knut Petzold - knut.petzold@ku.de) 10) Web data collection: Measuring comparability and equivalence (Inna F. Deviatko & Aigul Mavletova - deviatko@aha.ru ) 11) Underreporting in Crime Statistics: Methodological Pathways to the Hidden Truth (Georg P. Mueller - Georg.Mueller@Unifr.ch) 12) Recent developments in Quantitative Methodology [open session] (Henning Best - Henning.Best@gesis.org) 13) Recent developments in Quantitative Criminological research [open session] (Heinz Leitgoeb & Daniel Seddig - heinz.leitgoeb@jku.at )
Kind regards, Henning Best, Tobias Gummer, Daniel Seddig, Heinz Leitgöb