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Cross-National Comparative Research is concerned with observing social phenomena across countries, and with developing explanations for their similarities and differences. This Special Issue focuses on the use of Cross-National Comparative Research to study the effects of national and sub-national contexts on behaviors and attitudes of individual actors. Moreover, it is of interest how behaviors and attitudes at the individual level lead to national and sub-national outcomes at the meso and macro levels. How do immigration policies affect migrants' well-being? Does the number of divorcees in a country influence individual divorce risks? Are human values universal, or do they vary from one country to another? Under which conditions is political protest triggered, and when does it lead to revolutionary changes within society? These and other questions are typical of cross-national comparative analyses that seek to ascertain how upper-level (macro, meso) contexts influence micro-level phenomena, and how outcomes at the individual level are once more reflected at the meso and macro levels.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Prof. Dr. Detlef Fetchenhauer and Prof. Dr. Heiner Meulemann teach sociology and social psychology at the University in Cologne, Germany.

Cross-national Comparative Research

Theory Development in Comparative Social Research.- Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare Regime Theories: Assumptions, Accomplishments, and the Need for Different Methods.- Internationally Comparative Research Designs in the Social Sciences: Fundamental Issues, Case Selection Logics, and Research Limitations.- Multilevel Models for the Analysis of Comparative Survey Data: Common Problems and Some Solutions.- Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for Cross-National Comparative Research.- How to Obtain Comparable Measures for Cross-National Comparisons.- Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes: Contributions from Multilevel Studies.- Employment and Its Institutional Contexts.- Comparative Analyses of Housework and Its Relation to Paid Work: Institutional Contexts and Individual Agency.- Policy Effects on Political Engagement.- Party Competition and Vote Choice.- Political Systems and Electoral Behavior: A Review of Internationally-Comparative Multi-Level Research.- Families and Their Institutional Contexts: The Role of Family Policies and Legal Regulations.- Conditions and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities in the Life Course: Results from the Cross-National Comparative eduLIFE Project.- How Much do Sources of Happiness Vary Across Countries? A Review of the Empirical Literature.- The Role of Welfare State Characteristics for Health and Inequalities in Health from a Cross-National Perspective: A Critical Research Synthesis.- Is the Influence of Religiosity on Attitudes and Behaviors Stronger in less Religious or more Religious Societies? A Review of Theories and Contradictory Evidence.- Values in Life Domains in a Cross-National Perspective.- Media Use and Its Effects in a Cross-National Perspective.