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AUTNES Manual Content Analysis of the Media Coverage 2013: Actors and Issues Add-on (SUF edition)
Full edition for scientific use. This study adds to the existing manual content analysis on the media coverage of the 2013 Austrian national election. It emphasizes political actors, issues, and their evaluation. 8998 contributions from 14 print and TV media (selected according to various criteria in order to represent the Austrian media landscape as accurately as possible)...
Finnish Municipal Election Candidates 2017: Foreign Language Speakers
The study charted the background and motives of foreign language speaking election candidates as well as their networks and support for standing for the election. First, reasons behind the decision to stand for election in the municipal elections (e.g. the will to help others, to acquire useful skills for work, to implement the political values of their party) and what or...
Finnish Municipal Election Candidates 2017: Finnish and Swedish Speakers
The study charted the background and motives of Finnish and Swedish speaking election candidates as well as their networks and support for standing for the election. First, reasons behind the decision to stand for election in the municipal elections (e.g. the will to help others, to acquire useful skills for work, to implement the political values of their party) and what or...
Finnish National Election Studies 2003-2019: combined data
This combined dataset contains the harmonised variables of datasets FSD1260, FSD2269, FSD2653, FSD3067, and FSD3467, which were collected after the Finnish parliamentary elections of 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019. The studies belong to the Finnish National Election Studies data series, and their survey data contain Finland's contribution to the international Comparative...
Finnish Municipal Election Candidates 2021
The study charted the background and motives of Finnish, Swedish and foreign language speaking election candidates in the 2021 Finnish municipal elections, as well as the candidates' networks and support for standing for the election. First, reasons behind the decision to stand for election in the municipal elections (e.g. the will to help others, to acquire useful skills...
Follow-up on Presidential Elections 2018
The survey studied voting behaviour in the 2018 presidential elections in Finland. The data were collected just after the elections. Next, the respondents were asked whether their opinions of each of the presidential candidates had changed during the first round of the elections. Voting behaviour in the presidential elections was investigated by asking which candidate the...
Follow-up on Parliamentary Elections 2019
The survey studied voting behaviour in the 2019 parliamentary elections in Finland. The data were collected just after the elections. First, a number of questions charted the respondents' use of and attitude towards candidate selectors / voting advice applications. The respondents were also asked whether they had followed election reporting, campaigning and advertising in...
Voter Perceptions of Disabled Candidates in Britain and the US, 2020-2021
Much is known about the effects of candidate characteristics, such as gender, age, and ethnicity, on voter perceptions and support. Meanwhile, very little research on citizens' attitudes towards and stereotypes about disabled candidates and politicians has been conducted. This dataset provides the opportunity to explore how citizens perceive disabled candidates. The data...
Finnish National Election Study 2019
This survey focused on the 2019 parliamentary elections in Finland. Main themes included political participation, political attitudes, party allegiance, candidate and party choice, and voting behaviour. Further topics included citizens' initiative, different ways of having a say in matters, and future prospects of Finland. The data were collected after the elections through...
Follow-up on Municipal Elections 2021
The survey studied voting behaviour in the 2021 municipal elections in Finland. The data were collected just after the elections. First, a number of questions charted the respondents' use of and attitude towards candidate selectors / voting advice applications. The respondents were also asked whether they had followed election reporting, campaigning and advertising in...
Follow-up on County Elections 2022
The survey studied voting behaviour in the 2021 county elections in Finland. The data were collected just after the elections. First, the respondents' opinions on the importance of various elections (e.g. parliamentary, presidential, county, municipal) were surveyed. The respondents were asked whether they had followed election reporting, campaigning and advertising in...
AUTNES Manual Content Analysis of the Media Coverage 2013 (SUF edition)
Full edition for scientific use. This is a dataset on the media coverage on the 2013 Austrian National Election. 9000 contributions from 14 print and TV media (selected according to various criteria in order to represent the Austrian media landscape as accurately as possible) were examined by means of manual content analysis. All contributions refer either to a political...
Finnish County Election Study 2022
The survey charted Finns' opinions on the 2022 county elections and wellbeing services counties. The survey examined respondents' political participation, political attitudes, party allegiance, candidate and party choices and voting behaviour. The data also includes questions on future prospects of Finland. The county elections survey was carried out by the Finnish election...
Finnish National Election Study 2023
This survey focused on the 2023 parliamentary elections in Finland. Main themes included political participation, political attitudes, party allegiance, candidate and party choice, and voting behaviour. Further topics included citizens' initiative, different ways of having a say in matters, and future prospects of Finland. Swedish-speaking population is over-represented in...
Rerunning Patterns of Members of Legislative Assembly in India's State Elections, 1985-2018
The dataset covers regional assembly or Vidhan Sabha elections in India from 1985-2018. We first divided the data into two sets, pre-delimitation (1985-2007) and post-delimitation (2008-2018). We used the stringdist package in R developed by Van der Loo (2014) to name-match candidates in order to identify which of them reran for the same party in the same seat. The...