Democracy and bureaucracy in foreign affairs and domestic policy: Citizens' survey

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Sten Berglund - Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences

Description:

In this study the respondent had to answer questions about interest in politics, party preference, party most disliked, actual vote in the 1979 election and voting intention at a hypothetical election on the day of answering the questionnaire. There were also a number of questions on the opinion of the parties regarding: employment, equality between men and women, wage-earners´ investment fund, energy and nuclear power, schools and education, defence, taxes, aid to developing countries, child care, state control of private enterprises, and foreign affairs. The respondents had to give their opinion on different statements regarding foreign affairs, defence policy, and school issues, and also to give their idea of the opinion of the political parties regarding the same statements. In addition the study deals with the respondents opinion on how to influence political decisions, and opinion on the influence different groups and organizations have on foreign affairs, defence policy, and school issues.

Subject area:

international politics and organisations, political behaviour and attitudes, educational policy (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

defence, voting, development aid, foreign policy, political participation, schools, free trade, disarmament, private schools, defence and state security policy, school policy, political persuation, internal politics

Principal organisation:

Umeå University

Accessibility status:

Access to data through SND
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Responsible department/unit:

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Sten Berglund - Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences

Identifiers:

SND-ID: SND 0214

Description:

In this study the respondent had to answer questions about interest in politics, party preference, party most disliked, actual vote in the 1979 election and voting intention at a hypothetical election on the day of answering the questionnaire. There were also a number of questions on the opinion of the parties regarding: employment, equality between men and women, wage-earners´ investment fund, energy and nuclear power, schools and education, defence, taxes, aid to developing countries, child care, state control of private enterprises, and foreign affairs. The respondents had to give their opinion on different statements regarding foreign affairs, defence policy, and school issues, and also to give their idea of the opinion of the political parties regarding the same statements. In addition the study deals with the respondents opinion on how to influence political decisions, and opinion on the influence different groups and organizations have on foreign affairs, defence policy, and school issues.

Language:

Swedish

Time period(s) investigated:

1979-01-01 — 1979-01-01

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Sweden

Unit of analysis:

Time Method:

Subject area:

international politics and organisations, political behaviour and attitudes, educational policy (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

defence, voting, development aid, foreign policy, political participation, schools, free trade, disarmament, private schools, defence and state security policy, school policy, political persuation, internal politics

Available documentation:

Questionnaire (Swedish)

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Version 1.0:

1995-08-16 doi:10.5878/002447

Available documentation:

Codebook (Swedish)

Democracy and bureaucracy in foreign affairs and domestic policy: Citizens´ survey

Citation:

Sten Berglund. Umeå University, Department of Political Science (1995). Democracy and bureaucracy in foreign affairs and domestic policy: Citizens´ survey. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002447

Data format / data structure:

Numeric

Data collection:

Time period(s) for data collection: 1979-01-01 — 1979-01-01

Source of the data: Population group

Variables:

310

Number of individuals/objects:

2287