How would you measure happiness? Is it the number of times someone smiles, their answer to a survey, or something happening in their brain? Psychology explores complex, abstract ideas like love, ...

Measurements of abstract constructs have been criticized for a very long time in the social sciences due to their theoretical limitations 1. However, their extensive use in research and practical ...

As Tim Donais explains in his introductory post, this blog focuses largely on vertical integration as an important facet of international peacebuilding at a time of change and uncertainty in the ...

This mini-review examines scholars' responses to the question, “What constitutes a new party?” It proposes a path out of a situation in which there is no one standard answer to this question, or even ...

The current study provides a critical review of Canadian studies on ethnicity and mental health with respect to the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of ethnicity. It provides a ...