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. Main Topics: 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

Scottish Parliamentary Commissioners, 1357-1707 : Biographical Data and Its Presentation

This project is supplementary to the long-standing project of the Scottish committee on the History of Parliament to provide concise biographies of all commissioners from burghs and shires who attended Scottish parliaments and associated conventions of estates from 1357 to 1707

British Local Government Panel Survey, 1985-1986

The British Local Government Panel Survey, 1985-1986 is a panel study of attitudes and behaviour of local government electors. The survey consisted of two waves: the first wave carried out in 1985, sponsored by the Widdicombe Committee of Inquiry into the Conduct of Local Authority Business, and the second wave carried out in 1986 and sponsored by the ESRC. The first wave conducted a total 1,145 interviews. The second wave of the survey undertook to contact all of the 1,145 interviewees from the first wave. Of these, 745 interviews were obtained. For each of these 745 respondents, information from the first and second wave interviews plus the relevant contextual data were merged. It is this merged dataset that is held at the Data Archive