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AUTNES Candidate Survey 2008 (SUF edition) AUTNES Candidate Survey 2008 (SUF edition) doi:10.11587/JF64YWZA524710.4232/1.12030 Müller, Wolfgang C. Eder, Nikolaus Jenny, Marcelo S10903-G11 AUSSDAThe Austrian Social Science Data Archive Political partiesPolitical attitudesPolitical behaviourPoliticiansElection campaignsElectoral issuesDemocracyElection campaign financingEuropean UnionElectoral systemsPolicy making Political behaviour and attitudesGovernment, political systems and organisationsElectionsElites and leadership Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES Candidate Survey 2008 was conducted after the Austrian national parliamentary election of 28 September 2008. The dataset is based on a written census survey of the 4081 candidates for the National Council election. Candidates were asked questions on four topics: Political background and activities, campaigning, issues and policies as well as democracy and representation. The first subject area contains variables like the candidates’ party affiliation, its duration and possible changes as well as several indicators for political activity like association membership or the average weekly time spent with party activities. Next, candidates were asked about several details of their campaign: Its aim and strategy, time spent, occurring problems, communication means, personal campaign funds and relationship with the party. The third section on issues and policies also includes (besides questions about the candidates’ positions on several topics) coalition preferences, left–right self-placement and opinions on EU topics. The final part of the dataset holds information on candidates’ general attitudes about democracy, their preferred electoral system as well as their understanding of how a Member of Parliament should act. 2008-12-012009-05-31 Austria Individual Candidates of all parties to the National elections in 2008 Numeric Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section Total universe/Complete enumeration Self-administered questionnaire: Paper Structured questionnaire For more Information please visit AUSSDA's web page https://data.aussda.at/oai doi:10.11587/JF64YW 2025-09-09T00:00:07Z ddi:codebook:2_5