Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
hiermit möchten wir gerne auf die verlängerte Deadline für das
Special Issue zum Thema 'Vignette Analysis: Methodology and Recent
Developments' in der Zeitschrift methods, data, analyses
aufmerksam machen.
Der Call ist noch bis zum 31. Oktober 2020 geöffnet.
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zu finden!
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interessierte Kolleg*innen.
Beste Grüße,
Stefanie Eifler, Hermann Dülmer und Lena Verneuer
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of methods, data, analyses
Vignette Analysis: Methodology and Recent Developments
Guest Editors:
Dr. Lena M. Verneuer (RWTH Aachen University)
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Eifler (Catholic University of
Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
PD Dr. Hermann Dülmer (University of Cologne)
Vignettes have become an important tool in social science research
to measure attitudes, normative judgments, and behavioural
intentions. In general, vignettes are fictitious descriptions of a
person or situation, which have to be judged or answered by the
respondents. Drawing upon different disciplinary traditions, the
term ‘vignette analysis’ embraces many different techniques that
can be applied within the framework of non-experimental,
quasi-experimental and experimental designs. As indirect measures
used with non-experimental designs, vignettes allow for
emphasizing situational aspects and are seen to solve problems of
obtrusiveness and validity of direct measurements. Within the
framework of the factorial survey approach, vignettes are combined
with experimental designs (full-factorial or fractional). An
important strength of factorial surveys is that by implementing
them in surveys they allow for combining the high internal
validity of experiments with the high external validity of
surveys. In contrast to survey designs as they are typical for
simple cross-sectional work, factorial surveys are full-fledged
experiments and for this reason allow a strict test of causal
relationships.
Recently, several methodological challenges related to vignette
analyses were addressed. Depending on theoretical and
methodological objectives, the applied techniques vary in a broad
range and lead to different and sometimes inconsistent results.
Due to this diversity, findings on methodological and substantial
issues can have different meanings and impacts for further
research. Among these are for example the susceptibility of
vignettes to social desirability, learning and fatigue effects and
effects of order, variation, wording and presentation mode.
Accordingly, the methodological challenges related to vignette
analyses present a diverse field of research. This special issue
chooses one way of anticipating this and aims at shedding light on
the state of affairs by discussing recent developments and pooling
new findings of projects that try to enrich the discussion. The
focus of the call for papers is explicitly broad, and all
contributions dealing with different analytical strategies or
empirical designs that make use of factorial surveys or other
vignette analyses are welcome. Papers matching one of the
following aspects are cordially invited to be part of this special
issue:
- comparison and discussion of design-related questions regarding
methodological or substantive aspects,
- recent developments in measuring intentions with vignettes,
- theoretical ideas for modelling the relationship between
intentions and behaviour for further empirical analyses,
- cross validation strategies (new approaches, replications),
- discussion of (dis-)advantages of vignette-designs,
validations strategies and/or measures,
- issues of data-collection,
- substantive applications of factorial surveys
Submission procedure and timeline
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to the mda
special issue on “Vignette Analysis: Methodology and Recent
Developments”, please upload your manuscript at
https://mda.gesis.org/index.php/mda/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
following the guidelines of the mda until September 14, 2020.
Guidelines for manuscript preparation can be found in the
information for authors:
http://mda.gesis.org/index.php/mda/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.
When submitting the manuscript, please indicate in the field
“Comments for the Editor” that this is a manuscript for the
Special Issue on “Vignette Analysis: Methodology and Recent
Developments”.
Upon submission, manuscripts will be peer-reviewed in accordance
with standard journal practice.
Accepted papers will be published Online First before print. The
printed special issue will appear in October 2021. Queries about
this special issue should be directed to Lena Verneuer at lverneuer@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
The detailed time schedule is as follows:
Deadline for paper submission: October 31, 2020
Decision on the full papers: January, 2021
Deadline for the submission of revised manuscripts: March, 2021
Final decision: May, 2021
Online first publications: May – August 2021
Publication of the Full Paper Special Issue: October 2021
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