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Susan Jamieson
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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Health Professions Education, University of Glasgow. She contributed an article on the Likert Scale to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (2007), and a version of that article was used for her Britannica entry "Likert Scale." 

Primary Contributions (1)
Likert scale, rating system, used in questionnaires, that is designed to measure people’s attitudes, opinions, or perceptions. Subjects choose from a range of possible responses to a specific question or statement; responses typically include “strongly agree,” “agree,” “neutral,” “disagree,” and…
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set (December 2006)
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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