Election Studies from Eastern Europe

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Main 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.   
The data collection also includes further election studies from Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine and two comparative studies: World Values Survey Eastern Europe and Germany 1995-1998 and Consolidation of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 1990-2001 (Cumulated data set of the Post-Communist Publics Studies).

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Further data on voting behavior and political attitudes from Poland can be found in the Polish General Social Surveys (PGSS 1992-1999). The complete documentation and the cumulative data set are available on a separate CD which can be ordered from the GESIS-ZA (for German users only). The latest version of the PGSS (1992-2005) is available at the Polish Data Archive ADS.

The data are also available on the CD-ROM "Election Studies from Eastern Europe 1989 - 2005 Data and Documentation"  together with the documentation (study descriptions, questionnaires, codebooks and information on publications). Order

Further sources on primary and secondary data in Eastern Europe