Polling on Voters Behavior

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Cross-Country Networks on Electoral
Studies Linda Luz Guerrero
Workshop on Polling on Voters Behavior,
Jakarta, Indonesia, 1-2 December 2008 Organized
by Friedrich Naumann Foundation, in cooperation
with Lembaga Survei Indonesia
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National election studies usually cover

• Expectations about the election outcome
• Evaluation of parties and candidates
• Assessment of importance of problems facing the
  country
• Penetration and effect of election propaganda
• Campaign coverage in mass media

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National election studies also cover

• Feelings of political efficacy
• Trust in government
• Left vs. right positions
• Political participation
• Voting patterns past and present
• Policy positions of politicians
• Economic well-being

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Comparative Electoral Research is expanding and
providing opportunities to compare mass political
attitudes at both election and non-election times
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Comparative Projects, 1 of 3

• Afrobarometer http//www.afrobarometer.org
• Arab Barometer http//www.arabbarometer.org
• AsiaBarometer https//www.asiabarometer.org
• Asian Barometer http//www.asianbarometer.org
• Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS)
  http//www.comparativecandidates.org/
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
  http//cses.org
• Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP)
  http//cnep.ics.ul.pt
• Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA)
  http//www.electiondataarchive.org/
• Constituency-Level Elections Dataset (CLE)
  http//cle.wustl.edu/

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Comparative Projects, 2 of 3

• Eurobarometer http//europa.eu.int/comm/public_opi
  nion/index_en.htm
• European Election Studies http//www.europeanelect
  ionstudies.net/
• European Social Survey http//www.europeansocialsu
  rvey.org/
• European Values Study http//www.europeanvalues.nl
  /index2.htm
• European Voter Database http//www.gesis.org/en/re
  search/EUROLAB/evoter/
• Global Barometer Surveys http//www.globalbaromete
  r.net
• International Social Survey Program
  http//www.issp.org

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Comparative Projects, 3 of 3

• Latin American Public Opinion Projecthttp//www.v
  anderbilt.edu/americas/English/LAPOP.php
• Latinobarometro http//www.latinobarometro.org
• New Europe Barometer http//www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/
  
• Providing an Infrastructure for Research on
  Electoral Democracy in the European Union
  (PIREDEU) http//www.piredeu.eu/
• Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
  (SHARE) http//www.share-project.org/
• Transparency International Global Corruption
  Barometer http//www.transparency.org/
• World Values Survey (WVS) http//www.worldvaluessu
  rvey.org/

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CSES

• The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
  is a collaborative program of research among
  election study teams from around the world.
  Participating countries include a common module
  of survey questions in their post-election
  studies. The resulting data are deposited along
  with voting, demographic, district and macro
  variables. The studies are then merged into a
  single, free, public dataset for use in
  comparative study and cross-level analysis.

Comparative Study of Electoral SystemsCenter for
Political Studies, Room 4118Institute for Social
Research426 Thompson StreetAnn Arbor, Michigan,
48104-2321USAPhone(734) 764-5494Fax(734)
764-3341E-mail cses_at_umich.edu
dahowell_at_isr.umich.edu
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CSES Module 1 1996-2001

• focused on three general themes
• the impact of electoral institutions on citizens'
  political cognition and behavior(parliamentary
  versus presidential systems of government, the
  electoral rules that govern the casting and
  counting of ballots
• and political parties) the nature of political
  and social cleavages and alignments
• and the evaluation of democratic institution and
  processes.

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CSES Module 2 2001-2006

• focused on representation and accountability
• contrasting views of the logic of elections - to
  what extent are elections a mechanism to hold
  government accountable, as opposed to a means to
  ensure that citizens' views are properly
  represented in the democratic process
• citizen engagement and cognition across
  democratic polities
• how voters' choices are affected by the
  institutional context within which those choices
  are made.

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CSES Module 3 April 2006-2010

• continues some measures from previous modules,
  but shifts the substantive them to that of
  "meaningful choices" - how electoral motivations
  and decisions vary with the choice set available
• from a normative perspective, to what degree
  different supply patterns allow meaningful
  choices to be made in an election, and thereby
  make democracy work
• from a theoretical perspective, examines how the
  choice sets, or limits thereof, affect electoral
  motivations and decisions, in order to help to
  refine models of electoral choice.

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CSES Collaborators- Modules 1 and 2
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ASIAN BAROMETER

• The Asian Barometer (ABS) is an applied research
  program on public opinion on political values,
  democracy, and governance around the region. This
  regional survey network covers virtually all
  major political systems in the region, systems
  that have experienced different trajectories of
  regime evolution and are currently at different
  stages of political transition. Data gathered
  include issues of citizens attitudes and values
  toward politics, power, reform, and democracy in
  Asia.

Department of Political ScienceNational Taiwan
University21 Hsu-Chow Road., Taipei, Taiwan
100Tel [phone]Fax [phone]
0420Email asianbarometer_at_ntu.edu.tw
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Asian Barometer themes

• Economic evaluations
• Trust in institutions
• Social capital
• Political participation
• Election mobilization
• Psychological involvement
• Traditionalism and authoritarian values
• Democratic legitimacy and preference
• Citizen empowerment and system responsiveness
• Quality of governance
• International relations

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Wave 1 Democratization and Value Changes in East
Asia, 2001-2003
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Wave 2 Democracy, Governance and Development,
2004-08
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ISSP

• The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of
  cross-national collaboration on surveys covering
  topics important for social science research. It
  brings together pre-existing social science
  projects and coordinates research goals, thereby
  adding a cross-national, cross-cultural
  perspective to the individual national studies.
  The ISSP researchers especially concentrate on
  developing questions that are meaningful and
  relevant to all countries, and can be expressed
  in an equivalent manner in all relevant
  languages.

ISSP secretariat for 2006-2009 NSD (Norwegian
Social Science Data Services)Harald Hårfagresgt.
29N - 5007 BergenNORWAYTel 47 555 83246
Fax [phone]
www.issp.org
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Documentation of the ISSP modules is available
from the archive's web pages or from the GESIS-ZA
Online Study Catalogue (ZACAT). Data can be
ordered from ZACAT.

• 1985 Role of Government I
• 1986 Social Networks
• 1987 Social Inequality
• 1988 Family and Changing Gender Roles I
• 1989 Work Orientations I
• 1990 Role of Government II
• 1991 Religion I
• 1992 Social Inequality II
• 1993 Environment I
• 1994 Family and Changing Gender Roles II
• 1995 National Identity I
• 1996 Role of Government III
• 1997 Work Orientations II

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ISSP Survey modules continued

• 1998 Religion II
• 1999 Social Inequality III
• 2000 Environment II
• 2001 Social Relations and Support Systems
• 2002 Family and Changing Gender Roles III
• 2003 National Identity II
• 2004 Citizenship
• 2005 Work Orientations III
• 2006 Role of Government IV
• 2007 Leisure time and sports
• 2008 Religion III
• 2009 Social Inequality IV
• Planned
• 2010 Environment III
• 2011 Health

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ISSP Member Countries

• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Chile
• China
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Dominican Republic
• Estonia
• Finland

• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Latvia
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal

• Russia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• Uruguay
• USA
• Venezuela

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Recommended Networks

• Asian Barometer http//www.asianbarometer.org/
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
  http//cses.org
• International Social Survey Program
  http//www.issp.org
• World Values Survey (WVS) http//www.worldvaluessu
  rvey.org/

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www.sws.org.ph
52 Malingap Street, Sikatuna Village, Quezon
City Tels 926-4308, 924-4456, 924-4458, 924-4465
E-mail sws_info_at_sws.org.ph
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THE SWS MISSION IS TO GENERATE DATA --? to help
eyes to see -- Education? to cause hearts to
feel Conscientization? to help minds to
understand Analysis
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Quot homines tot sententiae As Many Opinions As
There are People