Representation of post-communist European countries in cross-national public opinion surveys

Problems of Post-Communism

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 42-52

  Slomczynski, Kazimierz M ^a,b   Tomescu Dubrow, Irina ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY   (Poland)

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EID: 33747050425     PISSN: 10758216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/PPC1075-8216530404     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Frank Louis Rusciano, World Opinion and the Emerging International Order (New York: Praeger, 1998). B
2. asic information on public opinion surveys around the world will be found in the annual Index to International Public Opinion (IIPO), published since 1978. In preparing this article we used two volumes in this series: Elizabeth Hann Hasting and Philip K. Hasting, Index to International Public Opinion (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990, 1994, 1998);
3. Elizabeth Hann Hasting, Index to International Public Opinion (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003).
4. We also used the monthly review World Opinion Update, The International Journal of Public Opinion Research, published under the auspices of the World Association of Public Opinion, provides useful information on international surveys and problems of comparative research. A recent article on comparative public opinion research and its methodological problems that we found very informative is Anthony Heath, S. Fisher, and S. Smith, "The Globalization of Public Opinion Research," Annual Review of Political Science 8 (June 2005): 297-333.
5. Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Goldie Shabad, "Reconfiguration of Eastern Europe After the Fall of Communism: An Overview," International Journal of Sociology 28, no. 3 (fall 1998): 3-14.
6. For concise information on the reconfiguration of Eastern Europe before and after the fall of communism, see Richard Crampton and Ben Crampton, Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge, 1997).
7. David Mason, Public Opinion and Political Change in Poland, 1980-1982 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
8. Some surveys in Poland were conducted by clandestine organizations; see Marek Tabin, "Podziemne badania ankietowe w Polsce" (Underground Survey Research in Poland), Kultura i Spoteczństwo 34, no. 1 (winter 1990): 203-11.
9. Darrell Slider, "Party-Sponsored Public Opinion Research in the Soviet Union," Journal of Politics 47, no. 1 (February 1985): 209-27.
10. k denotes number of countries, and N denotes number of persons.
11. See www.worldvaluessurveys.org.
12. The list of WVS publications has more than 300 items. The most important are Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart, Value Change in Global Perspective (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995);
13. Ronald Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997);
14. Ronald Inglehart, Miguel Basanez, and Alejandro Moreno, Human Values and Beliefs: A Cross-Cultural Sourcebook (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998);
15. Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, Rising Tide; Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003);
16. Ronald Inglehart, Miguel Basanez, Jaime Diez-Medrano, Loek Halman, and Ruud Luijkx, Human Beliefs and Values: A Cross-Cultural Sourcebook Based on the 1999-2002 Values Surveys (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editores, 2004);
17. Peter Ester, Loek Halman, and Ruud de Moor, ed., The Individualizing Society: Value Change in Europe and North America (Tilburg: Tilburg University Press, 1995);
18. Jan van Deth and Elinor Scarbrough, ed., The Impact of Values (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995);
19. Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Dieter Fuchs, ed., Citizens and the State: Changing Public Attitudes Toward Government in Western Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995);
20. Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte, ed., Political Value Change in Western Democracies: Integration, Values, Identification, and Participation (Tilburg: Tilburg University Press, 1997);
21. Pippa Norris, ed., Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
22. See www.issp.org/trends.htm.
23. Most of the cited publications pertain to the perception of social inequalities, political attitudes, environmental issues, sex roles and friendship patterns, and national identity. A sample of these publications includes: Wilhelmus Arts, Piet Hermkens, and Peter Van Wijck, "Modernization Theory, Income Evaluation, and the Transition of Eastern Europe," International Journal of Comparative Sociology 40, no. 1 (February 1999): 61-78;
24. Jonathan Kelley and M.D.R Evans, "The Legitimation of Inequality: Occupational Earnings in Nine Nations," American Journal of Sociology 99, no. 3 (July 1993): 75-125;
25. Jonathan Kelley and M.D.R. Evans, "Class Conflict in Six Western Nations," American Sociological Review 60, no. 2 (April 1995): 157-78;
26. Tom Smith, "The Polls: The Welfare State in Cross-National Perspective," Public Opinion Quarterly 51, no. 4 (fall 1987): 404-21;
27. James Davis, "Attitudes Toward Free Speech in Six Countries in the mid 1980s: Australia, Austria, Great Britain, Italy, the United States, and West Germany," European Sociological Review 6, no. 2 (May 1990): 1-14;
28. Merove Gijsberts and Paul Niuewbeerta, "Class Cleavages in Party Preference in the New Democracies in Eastern Europe: AComparison with Western Democracies," European Societies 2, no. 4 (December 2000): 397-430;
29. Elke Bruckner and Karin Knaup, "Women's and Men's Friendships in Comparative Perspective," European Sociological Review 9, no. 3 (July 1993): 249-66;
30. Knud Knudsen and Kari Wearness, "Reactions to Global Processes of Change: Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Marriage in Modern Nations," Comparative Social Research 18, no. 2 (March 1999): 161-96;
31. Kathleen M. Dowley and Brian D. Silver, "Subnational and National Loyalty: Cross-National Comparisons," International Journal of Public Opinion Research 12, no. 4 (winter 2000): 357-71.
32. A general description of the ISSP project will be found in Niko Tos, Peter Ph. Mohler, and Brina Malnar, ed., Modern Society and Values: A Comparative Analysis Based on the ISSP Project (Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana and ZUMA, 2000);
33. see also International Journal of Sociology 30, no. 1 (spring 2002), a special issue edited by Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Robert Kunovich.
34. See www.cses.org/resources/.
35. Three books are of particular importance: Pippa Norris, Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004);
36. Mark N. Franklin and Christopher Wlezien, eds., The Future of Election Studies (Amsterdam: Pergamon, 2002);
37. and Hans-Dieter Klingenman, ed., A Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, 1995-2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
38. See Ruth O'Shea, Caroline Bryson, and Roger Jowell, "Comparative Attitudinal Research in Europe," document written on behalf of the Central Coordinating Team of the EES and posted on the EES Web site, www.europeansocialsurvey.org.
39. See User Bulletins no. 1, November 2004, through no. 4, August 2005 (www.europeansocialsurvey.org).
40. Ibid.
41. See www.icpsr.umich.edu, www.data-archive.ac.uk, and www.za.unikoeln.de, respectively.
42. See www.gesis.org.
43. See www.ceorg-europe.org.
44. See, for example, www.ceorg-europe.org/research.2001_10.pdf and www.ceorg-europe.org/research2001_9.pdf.
45. See www.freedomhouse.org/ratings/index.htm. Original ratings range from 1 (highest) to 7 (lowest). For 1994-2001, data are available for all East European countries except Serbia and Montenegro. In this exceptional case, we assigned an arbitrary number 5, typical for countries experiencing deep external and internal conflicts. For all countries, taking into account the data for seven years results in a relatively stable measure of democratic progress.
46. World Bank, World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), table 1, pp. 232-33.