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European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study - Full Version

Weßels, Bernhard; Schmitt, Hermann; Wüst, Andreas
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5053 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12961
Other Title (type): European Election Study 2009 (Parallel Title) | EES Candidate Study (Parallel Title)
Abstract: European Election Study 2009: Attitudes towards political issues, value orientations, political background and experience of candidates for the EU-Parliament. Political career. Topics: Party ID: Party membership, year of ascendance, EP party group. Engagement and mobilization: Date of nomination; start of campaign and full-time campaigning; time exposure for campaigning by instrument (candidate and team); policy issues emphasized in campaign; focus of campaign (personal qualifications, local points of view, party’s election program and specific issues); amount of campaign budget; size of ca ... more
Topics: International politics and organisations | Political behaviour and attitudes | Elections

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 02.06.2009 - 20.02.2010
Geographic coverage: Austria (AT) | Belgium (BE) | Bulgaria (BG) | Cyprus (CY) | Czech Republic (CZ) | Denmark (DK) | Estonia (EE) | Finland (FI) | France (FR) | Germany (DE) | Greece (GR) | Hungary (HU) | Ireland (IE) | Italy (IT) | Latvia (LV) | Lithuania (LT) | Luxembourg (LU) | Malta (MT) | Netherlands (NL) | Poland (PL) | Portugal (PT) | Romania (RO) | Slovakia (S ... more
Universe: Candidates for the 2009 European Parliament Election
Number of Units: 1576
Sampling Procedure: Sample selection method: All candidates of a party on a list position which does not exceed 125 percent of the country’s seats in the European Parliament are defined as relevant. If the number of candidates exceeded the threshold, the inclusion of candidates is based on the respective party list position. Avoiding a too strict rule, all parties ar ... more
Mode of Data Collection: Mail survey or online survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) iVox, Brussels
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 307
Notes: The survey among candidates was conducted in dual mode, i.e. mail questionnaire and web-based survey. The choice of the mode was left to the candidates. The mail survey has been administered centrally by the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the web-based survey platform was provided by iVox, Brussels. After completing the English mast ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Weßels, Bernhard - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin | Schmitt, Hermann - Universität Mannheim | Wüst, Andreas - Universität Mannheim | Giebler, Heiko - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin | Kritzinger, Silvia - University of Vienna, Austria | de Winter, Lieven - University of Louvain, Belgium | ... more
Publication year: 2013
DOI: 10.4232/1.12961
Study number: ZA5053
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Research data center: FDZ Int. Umfrageprogramm bei GESIS
External links: Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU)

Versions

Current Version: 2.0.0, 2013-06-26, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12961
Version history: ... more

Reference publications

Publications: Giebler, Heiko; Haus, Elmar; Weßels, Bernhard: 2009 European Election Candidate Study: Codebook (Advanced Release, V2). Berlin: Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) | Giebler, Heiko; Weßels, Bernhard: 2009 European Election Candidate Study: Methodological Annex. Berlin: Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
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European Election Studies | show all hits of the group
The European Election Studies (EES) offer data about electoral behaviour in European Parliament elections. Collecting survey data as well as a variety of other data types, they cover topics such as the evolution of a political community in the European Union, citizens´ perceptions of and preferences about the EU political regime, and the evaluation ... more

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PIREDEU is a collaborative project on “Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union”, coordinated by the European University Institute (EUI) and its Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS). The project is funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme from 2008 up to 2011. The EUI/RSCAS is ... more

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Weßels, Bernhard, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin (2013). European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study - Full Version. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5053 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12961.

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