Polish National Election Study 1997 (PGSW)

Social and political awareness, political views and voting behavior. Topics: Political attitudes; election candidates; parliamentary elites; democracy; economic conditions; election campaigns; elections; European Union; government performance; labor (work); NATO; political change; political interest; political participation; political parties; voter attitudes; voting behavior; CSES module (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems). Demography: Age, gender; education; father’s education and profession; occupation; employment status; spouse’s occupation; income; household; marital status; residence; membership of political parties; religion; region.Soziale und politische Einstellungen, Wahlverhalten. Themen: Politische Haltung; Wahlkandidaten; parlamentarische Eliten; Demokratie; ökonomische Bedingungen; Wahlkampagnen; Wahlen; Rolle der Europäische Union; Regierungsarbeit; Arbeit; NATO; politische Veränderungen; politisches Interesse; politische Partizipation; politische Parteien; Einstellungen der Wähler; Wahlverhalten; CSES Modul (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems). Demographie: Alter; Geschlecht; Bildung; Bildung und Beruf des Vaters; Beruf; Beschäftigungsstatus; Beruf der Ehefrau; Einkommen; Haushalt; Familienstand; Wohnort; Mitgliedschaft in politischen Parteien; Religionszugehörigkeit; Region

Explaining support for European integration

This chapter deals with the impact of citizenship attitudes on popular support for European integration, an issue that has been extensively investigated in previous research. The distinctiveness of the new analysis in this chapter is that it allows a comprehensive empirical testing of a wide set of theoretical claims advanced in the literature that, due to data limitations, have seldom been comparatively assessed on their own, and never against the competing impact by the dimensions of citizenship explored in this volume. The modelling of systemic-level features, and of their interactions with individual level variables, is carried out to adjudicate between rival theoretical perspectives. The findings show that citizenship attitudes are important determinants of people’s overall evaluations of EU integration, without any significant variation across Western, Southern or Eastern Europe.http://tinyurl.com/7ajatc

When and Why Post-Communist Parties Become More Liberal

All of the Central and Eastern European countries making the transition to a market democracy have developed liberal constituencies and parties, albeit of various sizes and influence. Notably in some important cases it is the former Communist parties that have become both electorally successful and relatively more liberal. This paper uses a macro-level comparison of the policies and electoral experiences of the post-Communist parties in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Russia and a micro-level analysis of the 1997 parliamentary election in Poland to address the question of why and when post-Communist parties are likely to become both more economically liberal and more electorally successful. Our proposed answer is that the economic success pushes the distribution of mass preferences in a liberal direction. When this occurs, pragmatic post-Communist parties will adopt more liberal platforms and are likely to receive increased electoral support. This outcome contrasts with ideological post-Communist parties in economically successful countries that are likely to continue to receive a relatively small proportion of the vote. In unsuccessful transitional countries, such as Russia, post-transition Communist parties can both maintain their ideological positions and attract a large share of the vote.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39187/1/IPC-Working-Paper-015-Jackson.pd

Polish National Election Study 2000 (PGSW)

Social and political awareness, political views and voting behavior. Topics: Political attitudes; election candidates; parliamentary elites; democracy; economic conditions; election campaigns; elections; European Union; government performance; labor (work); NATO; political change; political interest; political participation; political parties; voter attitudes; voting behavior; CSES module (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems). Demography: Age, gender; education; father’s education and profession; occupation; employment status; spouse’s occupation; income; household; marital status; residence; membership of political parties; religion; region.Soziale und politische Einstellungen, Wahlverhalten. Themen: Politische Haltung; Wahlkandidaten; parlamentarische Eliten; Demokratie; ökonomische Bedingungen; Wahlkampagnen; Wahlen; Rolle der Europäische Union; Regierungsarbeit; Arbeit; NATO; politische Veränderungen; politisches Interesse; politische Partizipation; politische Parteien; Einstellungen der Wähler; Wahlverhalten; CSES Modul (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems). Demographie: Alter ; Geschlecht; Bildung; Bildung und Beruf des Vaters; Beruf; Beschäftigungsstatus; Beruf der Ehefrau; Einkommen; Haushalt; Familienstand; Wohnort; Mitgliedschaft in politischen Parteien; Religionszugehörigkeit; Region