Where have all the True Finns gone (from the ESS)?
I’m upset: It looks like voters and supporters of the radical right Finns Party were miscoded in the current version of the European Social Survey (round 10).
Tag: ESS
What we are reading: Comparative survey data, random effects and some best practice tips
Working with repeated comparative survey data – almost a howto There is now a bonanza of studies that rely on surveys which are replicated across countries and time, often with fairly short intervals, with the ESS arguably one of the most prominent examples (but also see the “barometer” studies in various regions). Multi-level analysis is…
Gibt es eine europäische Wertegemeinschaft? Die Wertpräferenzen der Europäer, 2002-2010
Slides (in German) for a talk I gave at the University of Zurich on the idea of a European set of value priorities. While preferences are very similar across Europe, with universalism and benevolence coming out top and self-enhancement ranking low, security is crucial for the post-communist societies in Central & Eastern Europe. I further…
European Social Survey Multilevel Data
Like social networks, multilevel data structures are everywhere once you start thinking about it. People live in neighbourhoods, neighbourhoods are nested in municipalities, which make up provinces – well, you get the picture. Even if we have no substantive interest in their effects, it often makes sense to control for structures in our data to…
European Social Survey to cut 30 items from its core questionnaire
The European Social Survey will drop 30 items from its core questionnaire in round 6 including information on party membership and media use
Chapter draft: Europa als Wertegemeinschaft? Ost und West im Spiegel des „Schwartz Value Inventory“
Book chapter (draft, in German) on the distribution of values/value orientations in Europe (East and West). For Eastern Europeans, security is the most important value. East Germans are stuck in the middle between Eastern and Western Europe.
What Drives the Extreme Right Vote: Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment?
Everyone just seems to know that the voters of the Extreme Right hate foreigners in general and immigrants in particular, but robust comparative evidence for the alleged xenophobia – Radical Right vote link is scarce. Moreover, many of the published analyses are based on somewhat outdated (i.e. 1990s) data, and alternative accounts of the extreme…