European Election Studies, 1989, wave 3

Abstract

Third wave of the European election studies 1989 contains information about interest in and knowledge of several aspects of European Community and voting behaviour/intentions, short after the European elections 1989. date and duration of interview, persons present at interview, cooperation of respondent / being entitled to vote / participation in European elections 1989 ( EE89 ) and party choice / reasons for not voting / party choice in EE89 based on domestic or european reasons / vote EE89 expresses attitude to national government / intended electoral participation in national elections and intended party choice / participation and party choice in last national elections / European Parliament party group 1984 of the party choice of EE89 and European Parliament party group 1989 of the party choice of EE89 / probability to vote for parties at national elections / interest of respondent in European elections campaign / campaign information sources / campaign related activities like reading, watching television, listening to the radio, talking with other people / detailed information about campaign on television / impression of European Parliament and the Commission of the European Community / has heard of the Single European Market ( SEM ) and the European summit / success of European summit / cooperation of the members of the European Parliament ( MEP ) should be based on national arguments or on political arguments / national decision or European Community ( EC ) decision in case of: environment, energy supply, development aid, unemployment, fight against poverty, regional development, defense, currency, health and social welfare, cooperation with 3rd world, education, massmedia, science and technology, rates of value added tax ( VAT ), foreign policy, industrial relations, privacy protection / for or against european unification / membership of EC is good or bad / own country benefits from EC / feelings about dissolution of EC / opinion about SEM / EC is considered ( not ) important / do viable alternatives exist for EC / importance of several issues: 4 national issues/ unemployment/ stable prices/ european unification/ arms limitation/ agricultural surplus/ environment/ Turkey in EC/ realization of SEM/ energy supply/ development aid/ poverty/ regional development / Inglehart's materialist post-materialist index / left-right position and political interest of respondent / subjective left-right position of national parties / satisfaction with democracy / does EC work democratically / ( dis )approve of national government / first and second preferred government over current one / importance of elected institutes / party attachment: strength and direction / age when respondent left school / size of firm and number of people supervised by respondent / former occupation / respondents condition better-worse in 5 years / more-less satisfied then 5 years ago / life satisfaction. Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ housing situation/ household characteristics/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ education/ social class/ politics/ religion/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposure/ organizational membershi