The Eurobarometer program has been enlarged by a Central and Eastern Eurobarometer (CEEB). The Central and Eastern Eurobarometer (CEEB) was an annual general public survey carried out from 1990 to 1998. It started in Autumn 1990 when nationally-representative surveys were undertaken for the European Commission in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
For the second wave of research, the number of countries was expanded and included nationally-representative samples from Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Russia west of the Urals. Central and Eastern Eurobarometer no. 3 further added Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Slovenia and Ukraine, while taking into account the split of Czechoslovakia. Georgia and Moldova were not surveyed in 1993 while Georgia and Kazakhstan were added in 1994. In 1995 the survey was extended to Croatia. In virtually all of the 19 countries covered by Central and Eastern Eurobarometer no. 6, a sample of around 1000 persons were interviewed in their homes. This was replaced by the Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB)
The first wave of the Candidate countries Eurobarometer was carried out in October 2001 in all the 13 countries applying for membership. Its methodology is almost identical to that of the Standard Eurobarometer. One report is published each year, excluding the special reports.
A number of smaller scale Flash Eurobarometers on specific topics (attitudes to enlargement, to the Euro etc.) have also been carried out.
Eurobarometer data files and documentation are stored at the Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung - ZA - in Cologne and at the Inter-university Consortiumfor Political and Social Research - ICPSR - in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as national data archives.
More up-to-date information can be found on the ZA Eurobarometer pages providing information on survey contents, reports, news, and the facility to search the codebooks and questionnaires.
Civic Culture Study 1959-1960
A cross-national study focusing on respondents’ basic political attitudes with emphasis upon political partisanship, political socialization, and attitudes toward specific institutions as well as the political system and culture as a whole. The information was obtained in cross-national surveys conducted in five countries -- Germany, Italy, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Information was obtained from 955 respondents in Germany, from 995 respondents in Italy, from 1,008 respondents weighted to 1,295 in Mexico, from 963 respondents in the United Kingdom, and from 970 respondents in the United States. Information is recorded for each respondent in the five surveys in 166 variables. Interviewing took place during June and July 1959, in all countries except the United States, where it took place in March 1960. Principal investigators were Almond and Verba. Available from the ICPSR in the US, or from national data archives.
Coping with Government in the FSU/ECE, 1996-1998
The purpose of this project was to see how citizens view their interactions with officials in various post-communist countries, in particular, to see: what kinds of ‘unfair' treatment people complain about; whether they have personal experience of unfair treatment or whether they are simply repeating hearsay and gossip; whether people think the change from communism to democracy made things better or worse; what strategies people adopt in dealing with officials; whether people really resent flexible behaviour by officials or regard it as a useful facility, and finally, what changes they would make to improve the interaction between citizens and the state. Conversely, to look at the perceptions and experiences of officials themselves, providing them with a right of reply. Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were chosen as the focus for the research.
The data set provides information on people's attitudes to economic and political reform; to government officials and their interactions with these; and their ideas on how to improve the official's behaviour, as well as the views of the officials themselves on these topics and their experiences dealing with the public. Principal Investigators were Miller, W.L., University of Glasgow. Department of Politics, Koshechkina, T.Y., Ukrainian Surveys and Marketing, Kyiv, Ukraine, Grodeland, A.B., University of Glasgow. Department of Politics Data available from the UK Data Archive (SN 3930)
Comparative Manifestos Project: Programmatic Profiles Of Political Parties In Twenty Countries, 1945-1988
The internal analysis of party election manifestos (or their nearest equivalents) in 20 countries (ie. of the concerns and emphases they contain) in both the domestic and the comparative contexts. The coding categories are designed, as far as possible, to be comparable both between countries and over time.
OECD Countries:
Australia (1946-1987), Austria (1949-1986), Belgium (1946-1987), Canada (1945-1988), Denmark (1945-1988), France (1946-1988), Germany (1949-1987), Ireland (1948-1987), Italy (1946-1987), Japan (1960-1980), Luxembourg (1945-1984), Netherlands (1946-1986), New Zealand (1946-1987), Norway 1945-1985), Sweden (1948-1988), United Kingdom (1945-1987), USA (1948-1988),
Other Countries:
Israel (1949-1988), Northern Ireland (1945-1973), Sri Lanka (1947-1977 )
Twenty Countries, 1945-1988
Data available from the UK Data Archive or national CESSDA archive
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems 1996-2000 (CSES)
This study is an ongoing collaborative program of cross-national research among national election studies designed to advance the understanding of electoral behaviour across polities. The data project, carried out in over 50 consolidated and emerging democracies, was co-ordinated by social scientists from around the world who cooperated to specify the research agenda, the study design, and the micro- and macro-level data that native teams of researchers collected within each polity. This collection currently comprises data from surveys conducted during 1996-1998. The format includes a common questionnaire module and background (demographic) characteristics of respondents, coded to agreed-upon standards. These data have been merged into a single cross-national dataset with a companion supplementary weighted data file.
Countries:
Argentina, Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States.
Data available from ICPSR in the US or from national CESSDA archive
Comparative Urban Fiscal Data from 13 Countries (Odense University)
Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990
This study, a collection of cross national measures of political democracy, contains over 800 variables for most of the world's independent countries. Political, social, and economic measures are available in the data file, and topics include adult suffrage, civil liberties, political rights, the openness, fairness, and competitiveness of the electoral process, executive and legislative selection and effectiveness, political party legitimacy, political participation, limitations on the executive branch of the government, level of democratisation, economic openness, constitutional development, government legitimacy, and the outlook for freedom.
Principal Investigator was Kenneth A Bollen. Data are distributed by the ICPSR Archive in the US.
Database of Liberal Democratic Performance
- The Database of Political Institutions
- Election Studies –towards the “European Voter”- ICORE
- Elections in Western Nations, 1828-1982
- European Communities Studies, 1970-1992: Cumulative File
(European Elections Study Research Group)
- European Elections Survey: Attitudes, 1979
- European Parliamentary Election 1979: The Impact of Mass Media
- Founding Elections in Eastern Europe
- International Social Justice Project 1991
- International Crime Victim Survey
Co-ordinated by the UNICRI, the ICVS is funded by participating countries and ad-hoc grants from several donors. The International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) is the most far-reaching programme of standardised sample surveys to look a householders’ experience with crime, policing, crime prevention and feelings of unsafeness in a large number of countries. The main aim of the ICVS is to provide solid data on crime and victimisation for the purpose of international comparison. Respondents are individuals aged 16 and older, partly national samples and partly capital cities.
There were four of the ICVS. The first was developed by a working group set up in 1987, leading to fieldwork early 1989. The second ICVS sweep took place in 1992, and the third in 1996/97. Fourteen countries took part in the first sweep, plus Japan and the cities of Warsaw (Poland) and Surabaya (Indonesia). the second sweep covered eleven industrialised countries. Also the project was expanded to thirteen developing countries and six countries in transition, although in most of these, the surveys were restricted to the capital cities. The third sweep involved twelve industrialised countries, all but one of the countries in central and east Europe and developing countries. The 2000 round involved 17 industrialised countries, these data are available. The release of the data from Eastern Central Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America is to be announced.
The fieldwork in the industrialised countries were co-ordinated by a single survey company. The face to face surveys were done according to the protocol developed by UNICRI. In all instances, either the CATI or Face to Face questionnaire was used, both are very much alike.
Countries included:
1989 – 2000 National surveys: Belgium, Catalonia, Czech Republic, England & Wales, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.
1992 – 1997 Capital cities: Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, Yugoslavia.
(the database also includes data from surveys done in North America, Latin America, Oceania, Asia and Africa)
Dissemination: data are downloadable from 1989 trhough 1997 plus the 2000 industrial countries or from Steinmetz Archives data from the 1989 through 1997 surveys
For more information, contact:
Dr. A. Alvazzi del Frate
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
Viale Maestri del Lavoro, 10
10127 Turin, ITALY
tel. +39 011 6537 111
fax. +39 011 631 3368
unicri@unicri.it
or see UNICRI web site
MORI Attitudes to Terrorism Poll, 1986A poll of adults in Great Britain, France and West Germany in 1986 tp examine attitudes tp terrorism carried out by Market Opinion Research International. The same questionnaire was used in all countries. Access is open from the UK Data Archive. Contact: archive-userservices@essex.ac.uk
Description at http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
The Political Action SurveysThe political action study consists of three parts. The first original study was carried out in eight nations between 1973 and 1976: Great Britain, West Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, the United States, Italy, Switzerland and Finland. Questions were asked about the extent and form of political participation, political orientation, post materialism, social and political attitudes and life satisfaction. The respondents from West Germany, the Netherlands and the United States were re-interviewed between 1979 and 1981. In addition, a new representative sample of the population in these three countries was drawn and interviewed between 1979 and 1981 as well. The contents of the studies carried out between 1979 and 1981 focused on the structure and determinants of political participation and political ideology. Data Available from the ICPSR archive
(Political Action: An 8-National Study 1973-1981- Number 7777
Political Action II 1979-1981 – Number 9581
Political Actuon Panel Study 1973-1981 Number 9582 )
Or from national data archives: http://www.cessda.org/
Political Systems Performance Data:France, Sweden and the UK 1850-1965
Transformation of the European Parliamentary Elite, 1958-1980
Views on West Germany in 8 Countries, 1977
Below there is a selection of relevant sites. Each includes links to other sites in the broad field and details of each of these have not been included here. The focus is on sites, which offer comparative data or information for countries of the European Union.
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area.htm area studies site, approx. 200 countries listed alphabetically with links to election data (not all countries), recent news, Perry Castenada Map Collection, World Factbook and CIA publications.
This site also includes links to information on government, politics, parties and elections on a country by country basis including a database of political leaders, list of heads of state and contact addresses amongst others.
http://www.politicalresources.net/ provides information by country within continent on some or all of the following: government; media; elections; organisations with links to:
http://www.electionworld.org/ which focuses on world-wide elections on a country basis Site also includes information on political parties world-wide and links to election institutes, parliaments world-wide.
http://psephos.adam-carr.net/ Election results for 127 countries, searchable alphabetically or by region
European Commission site for Eurobarometers. These data also available via data archives
The EDN (EINIRAS Database Network) project aims at developing a Pan-European database for international relations and area studies. The project is carried out by EINIRAS (the European Information Network on International Relations and Area Studies) and supported technically and financially by the Council of Europe
International Foundation of election systems. The Guide contains election entries for all national-level presidential, parliamentary, and legislative elections. It also has information on important national referenda. Other elections (e.g., local, municipal, mayoral) may also be occasionally included.
Lijphart elections archive housed at the University of California, San Diego campus, is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats.
Comparative study of electoral systems. The CSES Country Archive, is a collection of country specific data that has been deposited with the CSES Secretariat. Each link below leads to a country specific page that includes links to various study material.
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance - lots of data on elections including administrative, costs, turnout etc.
The MZES is a social science research institute at the University of Mannheim. It is committed to undertaking comparative European research and research into European integration. The main objective of the Centre is to combine comparative research on European societies and polities with social research on European integration. Consequently, its Eurodata archive covers all of Europe and focuses on socio-economic and political data. Its core relates to institution-related aggregate data at the national and sub-national level. Eurodata's central task is the establishment and maintenance of an appropriate data infrastructure for MZES-research It provides publications and machine-readable information, including access to online databases. It compiles systematic information on data institutions and enumeration programmes, with a particular focus on official and para-official statistics. It contributes to the development of European databases and monitors access conditions to official microdata in Europe. Eurodata divides into an information archive (with meta-information focussing on official statistics and relevant social science data), a statistics library (with all kinds of statistical manuals at the international, national and sub-national level), and a file archive with computerized data (with a focus on integrated time series data).
http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/mikrodaten/comi.htm: provides meta-information on major socio-economic surveys in Europe. Besides links to web-documents, a database has been established with standardised documentation. The database can be queried via the Internet and information be retrieved in a comparative way.
http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/links/politik.html links page from the above site to sites providing information on political science.
EuroInternet link page to sites with information for political scientists, predominantly European information.
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