Eurobarometer related Internet links and web resources
Die nachfolgende Linkliste ist nur in Englisch verfügbar:
Eurobarometer in the Internet (Investigator, Fieldwork, Reports, Data)
- European Commission DG Press and Communication, Opinion Polls Sector - principal investigator site with access to the official Eurobarometer reports, including qualitative studies
- TNS Opinion - Standard and special topic Eurobarometer fieldwork co-ordination and report preparation (siehe auch: TNS Infratest Politikforschung)
- Gallup - Flash and special target group Eurobarometer fieldwork co-ordination and report preparation (The Gallup Organisation, Europe)
- ZACAT / Eurobarometer online - Central & Eastern Eurobarometer, Candidate Countries Eurobarometer series and Standard and special topical Eurobarometer (currently until 2005) for online retrieval, documentation/data browsing and data download
Eurobarometer related and other international survey series
- European and world wide comparative survey projects - comprehensive historical overview of cross-national survey programmes and important singular comparative studies with focus on individual level population samples since 1948, including the Global Barometer projects, the World and European Values Studies, ISSP, the European Social Survey etc.
- SocSci on the Net - Surveys & data - references to WWW data resources at IFDO
- European Data Center for Work and Welfare (EDACwowe) - information on and direct links to comparative and national, quantitative and qualitative data on work and welfare and closely related fields
QoG dataset on social policy and quality of government - comparative cross-national and time-series data set on social policy output and its correlates, with a special focus on the connection between social policy and quality of government (QoG). This compilation of freely available data sources, including aggregated public opinion data (CSES, Eurobarometer, ISSP, WVS) is produced and made available by The QoGInstitute, University of Gothenburg.
European Statistics
- EDS European Data Service - provided by the Federal Statistical Office, Germany
- EURODATA Research Archive - infrastructural unit of the MZES, Universioty of Mannheim, with focus on aggregate socio-economic and political data (The EURODATA Newsletter)
- eurostat - statistical office of the European Union
- eurostat Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics - [hierarchical list of NUTS regions] [maps of NUTS regions])
- International Labour Organisation - ILO databases and other resources
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD statistics on demography, economics, education, employment, health, migration, ...
- Statistics Portal - of the statistical offices of the Länder and the Federal Statistical Office, Germany
- Statistical offices in Germany, Europe and worldwide - link collection maintained by Ferderal Statistical Office, Germany
- UNESCO statistics - Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication
- Data Report - demographic, social and economic data on the Federal Republic of Germany are compared to those of other EU-member and candidate countries (edited by the Federal Statistical Office (DESTATIS) in cooperation with the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and GESIS)
Country Information Sources
- Chroniken zur deutschen (und wichtigen Ereignissen der internationalen) Geschichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart - Lebendiges virtuelles Museum online (LeMO) des Deutschen Historischen Museums (German only)
- EURYDICE - the information network on education in Europe (European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture)
- The CIA World Factbook - annual editions
- The European Observatory on Health systems and policies
- The Library of Congress Country Studies
- Population statistics - population per country in a historical perspective, including their administrative divisions and principal towns
- World Health Organisation - country reports
- MZES/EURODATA Family Policy Database - family policies from the 1960s to the mid- 1990s in EU member countries plus Norway and Poland
Political Parties and Elections in Europe (and the World)
- Elections Resources on the Internet - links worldwide
- Elections and Electoral Systems around the world - links worldwide
- Elections and Parties around the world - contents of "Electionworld" moved to Wikipedia
- Elections and Referenda worldwide - International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
- Elections in Europe - data handbook (forthcoming 2006), part of the "Elections Worldwide" DFG research project
- Elections in the EU of 27 - CDSP (Centre for Socio-political Data) including country reports
- European Elections Monitor - Foundation Robert Schuman
- European Governments on-line - links maintained by the European Union
- Leftist Parties in Western Europe (and the World) - detailed list including links to party websites
- Parties and Elections in Europe - including election results and links to related websites
- Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe - election legislation and election results database for 12 Central and Eastern European Countries (project at the University of Essex)
European Union Link Collections and documentation centres
- European Documentation Centre (EDC) - at the University of Mannheim; providing references to other European Documentation Centres; link collection Europe on Internet
- Europäisches Dokumentationszentrum der Universitäts und Stadtbibliothek Köln - mit Linkliste zu Europa im Internet (currently only in German)
- Europe and European Union Links and Mailing Lists - maintained by the Max-Planck-Institute for the Studies of Societies, Cologne
- European Information - Pointers to resources of interest to research on the European Union, University of Exeter
- European Union Internet Resources - UC Berkeley Library Web Information Service
- European Union related links - large collection with comments in German language, University of Cologne
The European Union
- The abc of the European Union - the EU at a glance ...
- The European Commission
- The European Parliament
- European Union Constitution Website
- The European Union Enlargement Gateway
- The European Union Gateway
- Europe's Information Society Portal - European Commission
Comparative Social and Political Research with focus on Europe
- Center for Applied Policy Research at the University of Munich does research on European integration issues and compiles Eurobarometer results on selected EU topics (German only)
(Eurobarometer - Europa "von unten" 2006 and 2007) - Center for European Integration Studies - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universität Bonn
- Citizens and the European Union - Research project at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki
- Department of European Studies at Loughborough University (U.K.) - cross-national research
- EURONAT Representations of Europe and the Nation in Current and Prospective Member-States: Media, Élites and Civil Society - home page of the EC funded research project at the European University Institute, Florence
- European Consortium for Political Research - independent, scholarly association of European political scientists, supporting and encouraging the training, research and cross-national co-operation of political scientists throughout Europe and beyond
- European Elections Studies - home page maintained by Mark N. Franklin
- European Integration Online Papers Archive - peer reviewed E-journal in the field of European integration
- European Union Politics - international journal for advanced research on politics and policy in the EU (Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz)
- European Union Studies Association - scholarly and professional association focusing on the European Union and the ongoing integration process
- Fondation Robert Schuman - The French think tank on Europe
- Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS) - at the University of Bremen
- Jean Monnet Chair for European Affairs - Forschungsinstitut für Politische Wissenschaft und Europäische Fragen an der Universität zu Köln
- Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung - specialised in research on European integration
- Pippa Norris homepage - Comparative Politics, Political Communications, Digital Divide ... (publications and links)
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
- World Database of Happiness - directed by Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Learning and teaching
- Forschen mit GrafStat - Multimediale Lehr- und Lernumgebung für politische Bildung mit Beispieldatensätzen aus ALLBUS und Eurobarometer, Universität Münster / Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (German only)
- Politisches Systeme im Vergleich EU / Governance - drei PolitikON Lerneinheiten im Bereich "Politische Systeme im Vergleich" (German only)
© GESIS Meinhard Moschner 19.12.2008