CSES is delighted to announce the launch of CSES Module 6 with the product’s first advance release. This brings to seven the number of data products offered by CSES.
The topic of Module 6 is "Representative Democracy Under Pressure." The main goal is to capture citizens' assessments of the functioning of the democratic system and perceptions on system outputs, respondent attitudes to gender representation and representative democratic procedures, respondent attitudes to alternative government preferences, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on democracy. The stimulus paper for this module can be found here. The data can be downloaded from the project website or GESIS.
This advance release includes 12,112 respondents, 658 variables, from seven polities comprising seven election studies: Australia (2022), Brazil (2022), Denmark (2022), France (2022), Montenegro (2023), Portugal (2022), and Türkiye (2023).
This Advance Release also boasts the following:
- A suite of derivative variables, including pre-coded vote choice for left/right, vote choice by ideological family, turnout & vote switching variables, generational classification variables, and a first-time voter variable.
- Vote choice variables linked with expert populism classifications by CSES Collaborators.
- A series of bridging variables that facilitates easy linking of CSES Module 6 data with a host of other data, including the Manifesto Project Database (MARPOR/CMP) and the Party Facts Database.
- A series of district-level variables that report relevant election result data for each respondent's district.
- Unrivalled suit of macro and contextual data that relate to system/polity level data (about the polity or contextual characteristics) and aggregated macro data (about lower-level units into a higher-level unit).
An advance release is a preliminary version of this CSES product. It thus lacks some of the checking, cleaning, processing, documentation, data, and variables that we anticipate in the full release of this product. The product is still in development, and data will be added gradually. Many election studies and variables that will eventually be present in the CSES Module 6 full release are unavailable now. Advance releases are provided as a service to the CSES user community for those analysts who find it valuable to work with preliminary versions of the dataset. CSES MODULE 6 is scheduled to be in data collection from 2021 to 2026.
Founded in 1994, the CSES is a global and collaborative research project of national electoral studies based on a micro-macro design. Since 2011, GESIS, in partnership with the University of Michigan's Center for Political Studies, has hosted the CSES Secretariat, the project's operational center.