Caucasus Research Resource Center – A Program of Eurasia Partnership Foundation

Survey on Political Attitudes

CARDS

CRRC Armenia, December 2011

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CARD 1 Question 1

Completely Completely dissatisfied satisfied 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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CARD 2 Question 3

Everything People shape in life is their fate determined themselves by fate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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CARD 3 Question 5

1 Definitely going in the wrong direction

2 Mainly going in the wrong direction

3 Not change at all

4 Mainly going in the right direction

5 Definitely going in the right direction

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CARD 4 Question 7; 8

1. Reform of public governance (e-government) 2. Anticorruption policy 3. Electoral reform 4. Media reform 5. Reform with identification cards (passports) 6. Pension reform 7. Tax reform 8. Education reform 9. Healthcare reform 10. Agricultural reform 11. Judicial reform 12. Business environment reform

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CARD 5 Question 15; 18

Worse Same Better

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CARD 6 Question 16; 19

Not Very important important 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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CARD 7 Question 17; 20

1 Not involved

2 Rather not involved

3 Rather involved

4 Greatly involved

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CARD 8

Question 12

Statement 1:

People are like children; the government should take care of them like a parent. Statement 2:

Government is like an employee; the people should be the bosses who control the government.

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CARD 9 Question 35; 37

I would I would absolutely absolutely not vote vote 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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CARD 10 Question 36 Free Democrats National Democratic Union Self-Determination Union Yerkrapah Union People’s Party Liberal Democrats Solidarity Party Armenian National Congress Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) People’s Party of Armenia Republican Party of Armenia Armenian National Movement MIAK Union of Constitutional Rights Sardarapat Movement Social Democrats Rule of Law

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CARD 11 Question 38

Avetisyan Sargis Baghdasaryan Artur Demirchyan Stepan Tsarukyan Gagik Karapetyan Tigran Hayrikyan Paruyr Harutyunyan Aram Harutyunyan Khosrov Hovhannisyan Vahan Hovhannisian Raffi Manukyan Vazgen Rubinyan Karapet Sargsyan Serzh Ter-Petrosyan Levon Kocharyan Robert

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CARD 12 Question 41

1. Problems with voters’ list 2. One person voting for other people 3. Unequal access to media for some candidates or parties 4. Harassment of party activists 5. Bribing of voters 6. Harassment of voters 7. Voters feeling they have to vote a specific way to keep their jobs 8. People voting more than once 9. Employers forcing employees to take part in a campaign 10. Ballot stuffing 11. Local neighborhood thugs

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CARD 13 Question 45; 46

1 Absolutely free and fair

2 Somewhat free and fair

3 Neither free nor fair

4 Somewhat nor free or fair

5 Absolutely not free and fair

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CARD 14 Question 47

1 Completely trust

2 Somewhat trust

3 Neither trust nor distrust

4 Somewhat distrust

5 Completely distrust

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CARD 15 Question 49

1 Strongly disagree 2 Somewhat disagree 3 Neither agree nor disagree 4 Somewhat agree 5 Strongly agree

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CARD 16 Question 50

1. Nothing 2. Too little 3. Enough 4. Too much

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CARD 17 Question 51

5 Very positively

4 Somewhat positively

3 Neither negatively nor positively 2 Somewhat negatively

1 Very negatively

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CARD 18 Question 52

1 State 2 Business 3 Parties themselves Armenian citizens living in 4 Armenia Armenian citizens living 5 abroad 6 CEC

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CARD 19 Question 61

1 At home 2 Public meeting 3 In their office 4 In written communication 5 By phone 6 Email (internet)

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CARD 20 Question 63

1 All majoritarian MPs should represent an equal number of people.

2 All electoral districts should have one majoritarian MP, in spite of the size of their population.

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CARD 21 Question 65

Statement 1:

In electing a Member of Parliament, I prefer to vote for a candidate who can be useful for my community.

Statement 2:

In electing a Member of Parliament, I prefer to vote for a candidate who can make policies that benefit everyone in our country.

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CARD 22 Question 70

Additional state funding for 1 parties with more women candidates Additional free pre-election 2 air time for parties with more women candidates. Quotas in law to guarantee 3 more women candidates.

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CARD 23 Question 71; 72

1. Very badly 2. Somewhat badly 3. Neither good nor bad 4. Somewhat well 5. Very well

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CARD 24 Question 73

1 Do not trust at all

2 Somewhat distrust

3 Neither trust nor distrust

4 Somewhat trust

5 Fully trust

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CARD 25 Question 84

1 Not influential at all

2 Somewhat not influential

3 Somewhat influential

4 Very influential

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CARD 26 Question 90; 91

Colleagues Family members Neighbors, friends Internet Newspapers, news magazines Radio TV

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CARD 27 Question 93

1 Mostly pro government

Does not reflect the interests of 2 either

3 Mostly pro opposition

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CARD 28 Question 94; 98

Fully Fully distrust trust 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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CARD 29 Question 95

1. Debates on legislative issues 2. Debates on political issues 3. Unedited party press conferences 4. Parliamentary sessions (plenary) 5. Council of the Elders sessions 6. Parliamentary Committee sessions 7. Unedited live coverage of opposition party activities 8. Local government activities 9. Executive government (President, Ministries, Governor) activities

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CARD 30 Question 100

Statement 1: The news media should constantly investigate and report on corruption and the mistakes made by the government.

Statement 2: Too much reporting on negative events, like corruption, only harms the country.

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CARD 31 Question 104

1 Unemployed and looking for a job Unemployed and interested in a job, but 2 currently NOT looking for a job Unemployed and not interested in looking 3 for a job (if not a housewife) 4 Student 5 Housewife 6 Retired and looking for a job Retired and interested in a job, but 7 currently NOT looking for one Retired and NOT interested in looking for 8 a job 9 Disabled

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CARD 32 Question 111

1 Not at all important 2 Hardly important Neither important or 3 unimportant 4 Quite important 5 Very important

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CARD 33 Question 112

1 Every day 2 More than once a week 3 Once a week 4 At least once a month 5 Only on special holidays 6 Less often 7 Never

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CARD 34 Question 117

1 More than ArmD 446,001 2 301,001-446,000 ArmD 3 151,001-301,000 ArmD 4 93,001-151,000 ArmD 5 38,001-93,000 ArmD 6 19,001-38,000 ArmD 7 Up to 19,000 ArmD

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