Citation  | Weßels, Bernhard, WZB, Berlin (2011): European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study - Reduced Version. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5048 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11323 |
| Study No. | ZA5048 |
| Title | European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study - Reduced Version |
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| Current Version | 2.0.0, 2011-6-1, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11323 |
| Date of Collection | 02.06.2009 - 20.02.2010 |
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| 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 campaign team; aim of campaign (personalised vs. party campaign). Media Usage: Usage of campaign instruments; importance of media for election. Institutions: Attitude towards European Institutions; attitudes towards the power of the EP; satisfaction with the democracy in one`s own country and EU. EU integration: European identity (scale); attitude towards country membership in the EU; attitude towards enlargement and towards deepening; candidate’s and party’s position towards European unification; decisions by EU in the interest of respondent`s country. Value orientations: Self-assessment on a left-right continuum; views on political issues. Domestic and European issues: Most important issues; actual level dealing with the most important issues; appropriate level to deal with most important issues; appropriate level to deal with different policy areas. Representation: Importance of the representation of selected groups in the European Parliament (complete population in Europe, national population, the own party voters, population in the region, national party, the own European parliament group, women, elderly people, workers, young ones, disadvantaged people, minorities). Identity: Attitudes towards European identity. Demographics: Sex; age (year of birth); country of origin, present nationality and at the time of birth; country of origin of mother and father; identification with one`s own nationality, another group or both; marital status; present employment situation as well as immediate before the election with a full time mandate; occupational sector; self-assessment of social class; duration of living at the place of residence; church attendance; self-assessment of religiousness; assessment of the standard of living in the family of the origin. Recruitment and nomination of candidate: Encouragement to stand; nomination (level); who has nominated the candidate; alternatives for nomination; importance of certain groups supporting the candidate in the nomination process; political experience; membership; career aspiration. |
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| Universe | Candidates for the 2009 European Parliament Election |
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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 are included, which receive votes equal to half of the nation‐wide electoral threshold.
More than 260 parties have been identified to be relevant parties. In regard to relevant candidates, 6558 candidates for the 2009 European Parliament Election were identified as relevant.
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Mail survey or online survey with standardized questionnaire
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| Data Collector | Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) iVox, Brussels |
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