This survey was designed to investigate whether having psychological connections to particular groups (ex: racial, ethnic, and national origin groups) and perceptions of discrimination lead to alienation from the structure and operation of representative democracy in the United States. The data allow for comparative ethnic analyses of people's views regarding the representative-constituent relationship and of the conditions under which group identifications and perceptions of discrimination matter. The survey includes oversamples of Black, Latino, and Asian respondents. A Spanish version of the survey was available. Demographic information retrieved about respondents include age, race/ethnicity, gender, education (highest degree received), employment status, marital status, religion, household size and income. In addition, ancestry was assessed with the question, "From what countries or parts of the world did your ancestors come?" Respondents also reported United States citizenship status, primary home language, and nationality. Variables focusing on respondent perceived representation in the United States include political ideology and political party affiliation.

Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the twentyfirst survey in this series. The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments at Göteborg University: the Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Administration. Since 1998 the survey includes two nation representative samples and uses two different mail questionnaires. One of the questionnaires mainly deals with questions on politics, economy and working life, while the other mainly deals with media, culture and health.

In 2006 approximately one fourth of the questions asked in the two questionnaires are common for both samples, for example questions about media habits, political attitudes, leisure activities, and social background. The questionnaire on politics include ten different subject fields: news and media; politics, society and democracy; Sweden's relations to the surrounding world; possession of technical equipment and internet; society and public service; environment and energy; knowledge and society; activities, interests, and values; work life; and background questions. The media questionnaire is divided into eleven subject fields: news and papers; politics, society and democracy; television and radio; possession of technical equipment, internet and mobile telephony; periodicals, books and libraries; movies and theatre; media and society; the dog in society; activities, interests, and values; work life and background questions.

Purpose:

The main purpose is to establish time series that enable researchers to analyse how various changes in society affect people's attitudes and behaviour.

Continuous items for most waves watching tv / reading papers / taking part in discussions on political issues / political knowledge / political participation / party preference / questions concerning importance of different political issues / left and right in politics. Wave 12: Punitive attitude towards children / attitude towards work situation / attitude towards, experiences with and activities in sports in particular soccer / aggressive attitude / punishment of children / attitude towards aggression in sport in particular soccer / how punished in youth by own parents. Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ household characteristics/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ politics/ religion/ organizational membership

LLM prompt setup. The instructions for GPT-4 to generate answers to the Smartvote questionnaire contain two prompts: The system prompt gives instructions on the persona context, while the user prompt contains the specific question shown in the survey.

The CROP Inc. political surveys in the Canadian Opinion Research Archive are focussed primarily on the political attitudes of residents in Quebec. The surveys were conducted on an occasional basis depending on events in the province. The are concentrated, in particular, around events in constitutional negotiations and elections. The surveys available for research begin in 1977. CROP Inc. is located in Montreal, Quebec.

This survey focused on the fall election and included questions on performance rating of public officials, knowledge of party affiliation, registration in neighborhoods, reason for not voting, candidate choice, political ads, political participation, US and Ohio Supreme Courts, debates and media coverage, discussed campaign with another, and influence from others.

This statistic shows the results of a survey on the most important factor to consider when deciding which party to vote for in the upcoming parliamentary election on ******************, by party. For ** percent of voters who intend to vote for Miljøpartiet De Grønne, the ideology and values of the party are considered as the most important factor. Individual factors are only important for ***** percent of the MDG voters. Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) is elected every four years. The next parliamentary election is set for ******************.

Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the nineteenth survey in this series. The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments at Göteborg University: the Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Administration. Since 1998 the survey includes two nation representative samples and uses two different mail questionnaires. One of the questionnaires mainly deals with questions on politics, economy and working life, while the other mainly deals with media, culture and health.

One third of the questions asked in the two questionnaires are common for both samples, for example questions about media habits, political attitudes, leisure activities, and social background. The questionnaire on politics include twelve different subject fields: news; politics and society; the surrounding world; media and possession of technical equipment; journalism and society; society, public service and democracy; animals and nature; knowledge and society; environment and energy; activities and interests; work life; and background questions. The media questionnaire is divided into eleven subject fields: news and papers; politics and society; radio and television; possession of technical equipment, internet and other media; periodicals, books and libraries; advertisment and media; journalism and society; activities, interests, and values; work life; background questions; and 'yesterday activities'.

Purpose:

The main purpose is to establish time series that enable researchers to analyse how various changes in society affect people's attitudes and behaviour.

The data and programs replicate tables and figures from Mellon and Prosser "Correlation with Time Explains the Relationship between Survey Nonresponse and Mass Polarization".

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The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.

Main Topics:
The surveys vary, but topics covered over time include: voting intention; satisfaction with: the Government, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, the political system and institutions; opinions on problems facing Government; the political parties; voting and electoral behaviour; foreign affairs and defence; economic and industrial affairs; social issues (e.g. welfare, education, health, housing, environment); law, crime and justice; religious beliefs; role of women; race relations; attitudes to pornography, birth control, family planning, marriage, abortion, drugs, gambling, leisure; special issues and events. Please note that not every topic is covered in all surveys.

Classification details include: constituency, age and sex, terminal education age, marital status, social class, trade union membership and employment status.

This special topic poll is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and a range of other political and social issues. The study was conducted in part to assess respondents' interest in and opinions about the 2002 elections in New Jersey. Residents of that state were asked to give their opinions of President George W. Bush and his handling of the presidency, as well as their views of United States Senators Jon Corzine and Robert Torricelli, New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, and former United States Senator Frank Lautenberg. Those queried were asked whether they intended to vote in the November 5, 2002, elections, and for whom they would vote if the election for United States Senator were held that day, given a choice between Lautenberg (Democratic Party) and Douglas Forrester (Republican Party). Respondents were also asked if Lautenberg and Forrester had spent more time during the campaign attacking each other or explaining what they would do if elected, whether they found the Senate race interesting or dull, what they considered to be the most important issue in deciding how to vote, and whether they considered their vote as a vote for or against Bush. Those polled answered sets of questions comparing Lautenberg and Forrester as Senate candidates in terms of their experience, honesty, integrity, age, political orientation, position on Iraq, and their potential decisions on United States Supreme Court nominees. A series of questions addressed the withdrawal of Torricelli from the Senate race and Lautenberg's replacement of him: whether Torricelli did the right thing by withdrawing, whether it was fair that the Democrats replaced him on the ballot, whether the New Jersey Supreme Court made the right decision by allowing his replacement, and whether that decision had made a difference in how the respondent intended to vote. Respondents' views were sought on the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions for indigent women, increased restrictions on the sale of handguns, whether the sentence for a murder conviction should be the death penalty or life in prison without parole, whether companies responsible for major pollution problems should be held accountable for the clean-up costs, and whether the government should cover losses incurred by individuals who chose to invest their Social Security taxes in the stock market. Additional questions probed respondents' views on corruption in New Jersey politics, the importance of which political party controls the United States Congress, the influence of Lautenberg and Forrester campaign advertisements, and whether the respondent would vote for musician Bruce Springsteen if he were a candidate for United States Senator from New Jersey. Background information on respondents includes age, gender, political party, political orientation, voter registration and participation history, handgun ownership, education, religion, marital status, Hispanic descent, race, years in community, and household income.

Data from an expert survey on policy positioning and linkage mechanisms in 18 Latin American countries. Please see Condidtions & Codebook V2 for more details

The June 2012 Religion and Politics Tracking Survey was conducted by Public Religion Research Institute to examine attitudes on breaking news and emerging issues at the intersection of religion and politics. This survey examined public attitudes toward topics discussed in the country today. Questions explored attitudes toward same-sex marriage, immigration policies, health care laws, and whether certain policies should be decided at the national or state level.

British Election Study (BES)
The BES series constitutes the longest academic series of nationally representative probability sample surveys in the country. Its broad aim is to explore the changing determinants of electoral behaviour in contemporary Britain. The surveys have taken place immediately after every general election since 1964. Since the election series was originated in 1963 by David Butler and Donald Stokes under the name of Political Change in Britain, 1963-1970 (see under GN 33099), it has been under the direction of a number of academics over time.

Besides the main election surveys, other datasets have also been produced. For example, some studies have included separate sub-samples for ethnic minorities and areas such as Scotland and Northern Ireland (held under SNs 681, 3171, 3889, 3891, and 4622), and several inter-election panel studies have been undertaken between 1969 and 2001 that follow the same individuals interviewed in the cross-sectional surveys (see SNs 422, 2983, 3888, 4000 4028 and 4620). The 2015 study also includes an internet panel which follows a separate sample of voters across six separate waves in 2014-2015, and continues forward into the next electoral cycle - please see the British Election Study Data website for details.

The 2015 study was themed Voters in Context and was designed to help our understanding of long-term political change, and the role of national and sub-national variations in the political and social context in shaping citizens’ attitudes and behaviour. The survey tackles questions concerning key contemporary questions concerning political representation, accountability and engagement, and aims to help explain the fragmentation of party support in 2015.

British Election Study 2015 Face-to-Face Post-Election Survey
The BES 2015 Face-to-Face Post-Election Survey is an address-based random probability sample study of eligible voters living in 600 wards in 300 Parliamentary Constituencies in England, Scotland, and Wales; 2,987 people completed the survey.

The fieldwork was conducted by GfK between 8 May 2015 and 13 September 2015 and achieved an overall response rate of 55.9%. The face-to-face dataset also includes a self-completion Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) module that was answered by 1,567 respondents. Full details of the methodology and fieldwork are available in the technical report, and questionnaire details can be found in the codebook.

The CROP Inc. political surveys in the Canadian Opinion Research Archive are focussed primarily on the political attitudes of residents in Quebec. The surveys were conducted on an occasional basis depending on events in the province. The are concentrated, in particular, around events in constitutional negotiations and elections. The surveys available for research begin in 1977. CROP Inc. is located in Montreal, Quebec.

The CROP Inc. political surveys in the Canadian Opinion Research Archive are focussed primarily on the political attitudes of residents in Quebec. The surveys were conducted on an occasional basis depending on events in the province. The are concentrated, in particular, around events in constitutional negotiations and elections. The surveys available for research begin in 1977. CROP Inc. is located in Montreal, Quebec.

The sixth of 20 years of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys within New Zealand by Professor Philip Gendall, Department of Marketing, Massey University.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. 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.The sample was selected using the 1996 New Zealand electoral rolls, which contained the names of all registered voters 18 years and over. New Zealand was at the time divided into 65 electorates (60 general and 5 Māori) of approximately equal numerical size. A systematic random sample of approximately 30 names and addresses was selected from each electorate, giving a total sample of 1,890 individuals.The achieved sample was generally representative of the New Zealand population 18 years and over, but it contained a slightly higher proportion of women than men in the population. In addition, underrepresentation of under 30s and overrepresentation of over 30s existed, but these differences are unlikely to have had a significant effect on the survey’s results.A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.The role of government. Attitude to observance of laws; attitudes to various forms of protest against the government; willingness to participate and actual participation in public protest events or demonstrations against the government; views regarding freedom of speech for extremists; attitude to miscarriage of justice; perceived threat to the private sphere from governmental data collection and computer networks (data protection).Income equalisation as government task and stand on economy-related measures of government; attitude to increase in government expenditures for environmental protection, public health system, the police, education system, defence, pensions, unemployment benefits, culture; assessment of the power of trade unions, business and government; assessment of the governmental responsibility for social political tasks (protection of old people, students, housing supply, jobs, economic growth through aid to industry, price stability, etc.).Political interest; general attitudes to politics and the political system (subjective assessment of the political possibilities to influence (efficacy), political extent to which informed, politicians and election promises, satisfaction with democracy); tax reduction versus expansion of social services; assessment of tax equity with various income groups; attitude to privatisation or nationalisation of selected public facilities; reducing inflation versus fight against unemployment; preference for increased social services or reduction in debt; attitude to amount of income tax for first and second job.Demography: sex; age; living together with a partner; school education; employment status of respondent as well as partner; occupation (ILO/ISCO Code); employment in the public sector; self-employed occupation; hours worked each week; supervisor status; income; family income; religious denomination; religiousness; self-classification of social class; union membership; party preference (left-right orientation); behaviour at the polls in the last election; reasons for not voting; size of household; composition of household; degree of urbanisation; city size; region; ethnic or national affiliation or origins.

Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey - the National SOM - in order to identify the Swedish public's habits and attitudes on the topics of society, politics and media. National SOM 2008 is accordingly the twenty-third survey in this series. The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments/institutes at Göteborg University: the Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Political Science, and the Center for Public Sector Research (CEFOS). A number of research projects are involved in the National SOM - most from one of these three institutions, but also external projects are involved. Since 1998 the survey includes two nation representative samples and uses two different mail questionnaires. One of the questionnaires mainly deals with questions on politics, economy and working life, while the other mainly deals with media, culture and life style. The data collection is carried out in parallel and under identical conditions. In 2008 one fourth of the questions asked in the two questionnaires are common for both samples, for example questions about media habits, political attitudes, leisure activities, and social background. The questionnaire on politics includes ten different subject fields: news and media; politics, society and democracy; radio and televisiont; Sweden's relations to the surrounding world; society and public service; environment and energy; knowledge and society; activities, interests, and values; work life; and background questions. The media questionnaire is divided into eight subject fields: news and papers; politics, society and democracy; radio and television; media technology, internet and mobile telephony; culture, society and media; interests, activities and values; work life; and background questions. Purpose: The main purpose is to establish time series that enable researchers to analyse how various changes in society affect people's attitudes and behaviour.

Data for “What Are You Talking About?” Political Conceptualization and the Mismeasurement of Political Discussion

These data come from several web surveys among the German population 18 years and older who live in Germany and were eligible to vote in the 2021 federal election. Respondents were recruited from the German nonprobability online panel of Respondi/Bilendi.

In August of 2021, members of the online panel were invited through a survey-router system. For Wave 1 (30.8.2021-7.9.2021), 3,530 people were invited to the survey and 2,221 ended the survey successfully. For Wave 1B (8.9.2021-14.9.2021), only respondents from Wave 1 who reported owning a smartphone were invited. 1,803 completed the survey. For Wave 2 (14.9.2021-20.9.2021), 3,761 individuals were invited of which 2,451 completed the survey. For Wave 3 (27.9.2021-4.10.2021), 3,565 individuals were invited and 2,261 completed the survey. For Wave 4 (01.12.2021-16.12.2021), 1,945 individuals were invited and 1,092 completed the survey. The full data set includes 2,756 individuals who completed at least one of the four survey waves. For a detailed view of the longitudinal response structure, variables indicating participation in each wave are part of the dataset.

Quotas for gender, age, and state (Bundesland) were employed to generate a sample with sufficient diversity.

The questionnaire included items on political attitudes, voting preferences, political identities, news media consumption on- and offline, smartphone and social media use. The questionnaire was programmed in EFS Survey. Respondents could complete the questionnaire on a PC, tablet or smartphone.