nmm 22 4500 ICPSR03808 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130519s2004 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR03808 MiAaI MiAaI Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, 2001-2006 [electronic resource] Virginia Sapiro , W. Philips Shively 2008-07-01 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2004 ICPSR 3808 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-19. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. This study is the full release of 2001-2006 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. This collection currently comprises data from surveys conducted in the countries of Albania, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United States. 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 the political context across a variety of settings. The module added a new set of items on citizen engagement and cognition across demographic polities, and expanded the analyses of the first module to examine how voters' choices are affected by the institutional context within which those choices are made. The survey results have been compiled and supplemented with district-level information that provides 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. Demographic variables include age, sex, race, ethnicity, education level, marital status, employment status, occupation, household union membership, language, socioeconomic status, political party affiliation, political orientation, religious preference, frequency of religious attendance, household income, number of children and other members of the household, and type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural). Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03808.v2 democracy icpsr demographic characteristics icpsr electoral systems icpsr national elections icpsr nations icpsr political affiliation icpsr political efficacy icpsr political ideologies icpsr political parties icpsr political systems icpsr politicians icpsr parliamentary elections icpsr presidential elections icpsr public opinion icpsr vote count icpsr voting behavior icpsr ICPSR XIV.A.4.b. Mass Political Behavior and Attitudes, Historical and Contemporary Electoral Processes, Merged Electoral and Ecological Data, Nations Other Than the United States IDRC III. Electoral Systems and Political Behavior IDRC VII. Public Opinion Data Sapiro, Virginia Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Shively, W. Philips Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03808.v2