Election Studies from Eastern Europe

Election Studies from Eastern Europe are part of a broad stock of Eastern European data collections available through the GESIS data service (Data Catalogue) and set up largely by the former GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe. They comprise comparative studies (e.g. Living Condition Survey Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia 1999, Consolidation of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 1990-2001 (PCP I and II) or Transformation Barometer 1997), as well as single country surveys (e.g. the POLPAN Panel Study 1988-2003). In addition Eastern European countries have been surveyed in the Eurobarometer context.

The Eastern European Election Studies are available online via ZACAT or on CD-ROM…

Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine

• Data Access:
  Online analysis and download at ZACAT;
  Data and documentation "Election Studies from Eastern Europe 1989-2005" on the CD "Election Studies from Eastern Europe 1989-2005"

Main part of the data collection are election studies from Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine as well as two comparative studies: World Values Survey Eastern Europe and Germany 1995-1998 and Consolidation of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 1990-2001 PCP I and II (cumulated data set of the Post-Communist Publics Studies).

Further data on voting behavior and political attitudes from Poland can be found in the Polish General Social Surveys (PGSS 1992-1999 study description). The CD is available for German users only (order). The latest version of the PGSS (1992-2005) is available at the Polish Data Archive ADS.

Project  "Free Elections, Political Parties and the Emergence of Competitive Party Systems in Eastern Europe"

• Data Access:
  Online analysis and download at ZACAT;
  Data and documentation "Election Studies from Eastern Europe 1989-2005" on the CD "Election Studies from Eastern Europe 1989-2005"

An essential part of the data collection on elections and political attitudes from East European Countries are data sets which have been collected in the framework of the project  "Free Elections, Political Parties and the Emergence of Competitive Party Systems in Eastern Europe" since 1991 (Social Science Research Center Berlin).

Financed by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation the project concentrated on the emerging and formation process of democracy in 14 countries: Albania, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Belarus, Croatia, Romania, Russia, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Hungary, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), and Slovenia.