ICPSR 3808 Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, 2001-2006 Virginia Sapiro W. Philips Shively Comparative Study of Electoral Systems First ICPSR Version February 2004 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 www.icpsr.umich.edu Terms of Use Bibliographic Citation: Publications based on ICPSR data collections should acknowledge those sources by means of bibliographic citations. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for social science bibliographic utilities, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Secretariat. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS, 2001-2006 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer], 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. 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Philips Shively Title: Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, 2001-2006 ICPSR Study Number: 3808 Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Grant Number: CES-0112029 Summary: 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. Universe: All age-eligible citizens, or citizens of voting age of collaborating countries. Sample: The data collection is a pooled crossnational sample of age-eligible citizens, yielding 12,887 cases. Dates of Collection: 2001-2002 Data Collection Notes: (1) This is an advance release dataset. Information, updates, and error notifications and corrections will be posted on the CSES Module 2 errata page as they become available (http://www.umich.edu/~cses/download/module2/errata/errata.htm). (2) These data are preliminary and lack some of the checking, cleaning, processing, documentation, data, and variables that are usually part of a full release of a dataset. (3) Technical characteristics of the data file, such as variable and column widths, number of variables, and perhaps even some variable names, may change between the advance and full releases of a dataset. (4) The 1996-2001 data file (ICPSR 2683) includes 2002 Portugal data. The 2002 Portugal data are different from the 2002 Portugal data in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, 2001-2006 (ICPSR 3808). (5) This crossnational dataset integrates data already fully processed by the study staffs of the individual countries, without further processing except for that which was essential for merging the data into the combined file. Where coded data for any deposited variables deviated too much from the coding scheme required by the CSES codebook, data for such variables were excluded. (6) For some countries, a machine-readable file for appendix documentation was not deposited or was incomplete. Wherever possible, Secretariat staff incorporated documentary information from other deposited sources, including printed matter such as tables of frequency distributions with assigned code labels. (7) Because of the variance in the sample designs used in the election studies included in this project, the weights (variables B1010-B1014) provided by the collaborators also vary greatly. They are described in detail in the codebook. Analysts are advised to read this section carefully to ensure that their analyses are weighted appropriately. (8) The codebook for Part 1 of this collection contains characters with diacritical marks used in many European languages, which are unprintable in the original character format being released. (9) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. Data Source: personal interviews, phone interviews, and mailback questionnaires Extent of Collection: 1 data file + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS data definition statements + SPSS data definition statements Extent of Processing: MDATA.PR/ REFORM.DOC Data Format: Logical Record Length with SAS and SPSS data definition statements, Stata system file File Specifications Part Part Name File Structure Case Variable LRECL Records No. Count Count Per Case 1 Data file rectangular 12,887 211 1,060 1 =========================================================================== COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS (CSES) - MODULE 2 (2001-2006) CODEBOOK: INTRODUCTION ADVANCE RELEASE DATASET: MAY 1, 2003 CSES Secretariat Center for Political Studies Institute for Social Research The University of Michigan =========================================================================== The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan. Electronic resources from the CSES World Wide Website (www.umich.edu/~cses). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer and distributor], 1995-2003. These materials are based on work supported by the National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov) under grant number CES-0112029 and the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies. IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING ADVANCE RELEASES: This dataset and all accompanying documentation is an "Advance Release" of CSES Module 2 (2001-2006). By definition, an Advance Release is a preliminary version of a dataset, and thus lacks some of the checking, cleaning, processing, documentation, data, and variables that are usual to the Full Release of a dataset. For instance, many election studies that will eventually be present in the CSES Module 2 Full Release are not available in this file. Because Module 2 extends through the year 2006, many of the elections whose election studies will contain CSES Module