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International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2009 21(3):267-270; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edp038
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

Editorial: Comparative Survey Research

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As Durkheim (1938, p. 139) noted in 1895, "Comparative sociology is not a particular branch of sociology, it is sociology itself, in so far as it ceases to be purely descriptive and aspires to account for facts." And this of course applies to the social sciences as a whole. Increasingly social scientists are realizing not only the utility, but also the necessity, of comparative research (Bamyeh, 1993; Bollen, Entwisle, & Alderson, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Tom W. Smith


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