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European Election Study 2009: Attitudes towards political issues, value orientations, political background and experience of candidates for the EU-Parliament. Political career. Topics: Party ID: Party membership, year of ascendance, EP party group. Engagement and mobilization: Date of nomination; start of campaign and full-time campaigning; time exposure for campaigning by instrument (candidate and team); policy issues emphasized in campaign; focus of campaign (personal qualifications, local points of view, party’s election program and specific issues); amount of campaign budget; size of campaign team; aim of campaign (personalised vs. party campaign). Media Usage: Usage of campaign instruments; importance of media for election. Institutions: Attitude towards European Institutions; attitudes towards the power of the EP; satisfaction with the democracy in one`s own country and EU. EU integration: European identity (scale); attitude towards country membership in the EU; attitude towards enlargement and towards deepening; candidate’s and party’s position towards European unification; decisions by EU in the interest of respondent`s country. Value orientations: Self-assessment on a left-right continuum; views on political issues. Domestic and European issues: Most important issues; actual level dealing with the most important issues; appropriate level to deal with most important issues; appropriate level to deal with different policy areas. Representation: Importance of the representation of selected groups in the European Parliament (complete population in Europe, national population, the own party voters, population in the region, national party, the own European parliament group, women, elderly people, workers, young ones, disadvantaged people, minorities). Identity: Attitudes towards European identity. Demographics: Sex; age (year of birth); country of origin, present nationality and at the time of birth; country of origin of mother and father;...