Introduction to the Special Issue
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Political Analysis
- Vol. 13 (4), 297-300
- https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpi027
Abstract
The use of multilevel models—models in which lower-level (“micro”) units are nested within higher-level (“macro”) units—has blossomed recently in political science. Possible relationships in such models include macro variables influencing macro variables; micro variables influencing micro variables; macro variables influencing micro variables, and vice versa; and often most interestingly, micro-micro relationships varying interactively with macro variables. Most work in political science has drawn on the useful introductions of Raudenbush and Bryk (2002), Western (1998), and Steenbergen and Jones (2002). We refer readers to good general introductions/reviews of multi-level modeling in the articles in this issue by Bowers and Drake and by Franzese.Keywords
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