The Comparative Study Of Electoral Systems PDF Download

This study is an early release of 2001 and 2002 data from Module 2 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems is an ongoing collaborative program of crossnational research among national election studies designed to advance the understanding of electoral behavior across polities. The project, which is being carried out in over 50 consolidated and emerging democracies, was coordinated 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. To date, Module 2 has been administered as part of eight national post-election survey research projects. This Module 2 data file is an early release of 2001 data from Bulgaria and Poland and 2002 data from France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, and Portugal. The post-election survey results have been compiled and supplemented with district-level information that provide insight into the respondent's political context, and macro-level data that detail the respondent's political system as a whole. At each level of data collection, the measurements used have been standardized to promote comparison. Module 2 focuses on electoral institutions and political behavior, particularly on the fundamental principles of democratic governance : representation and accountability. It aims to examine how well different electoral institutions function as mechanisms by which citizens' views are represented in the policymaking process, and by which citizens hold their elected representatives accountable. This is accomplished by explicitly linking individual attitudes and behaviors to political context across a variety of settings. Demographic variables include respondents' age, sex, education, employment, and income ... Cf. : http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03808.xml.