Wijbrandt H. van Schuur is associate professor at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is interested in measurement models and has taught measurement and scaling models in Groningen and at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. He has developed an ordinal unidimensional unfolding model and a model for the ordinal circumplex (for the first see Political Analysis, 1993, and Applied Psychological Measurement, 1994; and for the second, Essays in item response theory: Lecture notes in statistics, Vol. 157, 2001). His main substantive research interest is in the measurement of political knowledge (e.g. Acta Politica 2000), and, in collaboration with the Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties, the study of party membership (e.g. Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 18, 2010).
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About the Author Series Editor's Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Guttman Scale Chapter 3. The Imperfect Cumulative Scale Chapter 4. Confirmation or Exploration Chapter 5. An Example of a Cumulative Scale: American Religious Beliefs Chapter 6. The Probabilistic Dominance Model: Monotone Homogeneity Chapter 7. The Probabilistic Dominance Model: Double Monotonicity Chapter 8. Cumulative Scaling with Polytomous Items Chapter 9. Remaining Issues References Selected Bibliography Appendices Author Index Subject Index