Methodological Advances in Cross-National Research: Multilevel Challenges and Solutions

Since its very inception, the European Sociological Review has encouraged “cross-national comparative work which concentrates on or includes European societies” (Mayer, Goldthorpe, and Ringen, 1985). Although our focus is not only merely on papers of a cross-national nature, we have published a considerable number of such studies. Another aim of ESR is to further the more general development of sociology by publishing theoretical and methodological articles where these have a direct relevance for sociological research. A recent example of a prominent methodological study in ESR was the 2010 article by Carina Mood, which has—judging from the over 200 citations it has already received in SSCI-listed journals alone—had considerable impact on the way logistic regression is practiced (or not) in contemporary social science research