Principal Investigators
Wouter van der Brug (University of Amsterdam)
Pilar del Cstillo (then CIS, Madrid, now cabinet minister in the government of Spain)
Cees van der Eijk (University of Amsterdam),
Mark Franklin (Trinity College, Hartford CT),
Soren Holmberg (University of Gottenburg)
Renato Mannheimer (then University of Milan, now University of Genova),
Michael Marsh (Trinity College Dublin),
Holli Semetko (University of Amsterdam)
Hermann Schmitt (University of Mannheim),
Jacques Thomassen (University of Twente),
Bernard Wessels (Free University of Berlin),
Research design
This project is in the process of studying the dynamics of issue evolution and the framing of political agendas at the time of the 1999 elections to the European Parliament. It is doing so by means of linked studies of party manifestos, the media, the voters and the elected representatives across all countries of the European Union. As a subsidiary objective it is studying the evolution of the separate electorates of member countries towards a single European electorate. View acrobat file.
A study of the media in six EU countries at the time of the 1999 elections to the European Parliament was funded by the Dutch NWO. The interviewing of voters was funded by the Dutch NWO.
The interviewing of voters was funded by the Dutch NWO, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Mannheim, Trinity College, Hartford, and others. Unlike previous studies, this one was not added as additional questions to an existing Euro-baro-meter study. Instead, a telephone survey of voters in each of the 15 member countries of the EU was conducted, with sample sizes roughly proportional to population (minimum sample size 300). The questionnaires were identical in all member states (apart from unavoidable variations due to language and institutional differences) and a large number of questions were identical to those used in the 1989 and 1994 studies, thus permitting over-time comparisons with voter behavior in the 1989 and 1994 elections.
Data from the voters study have been archived at the Steinmetz Archive at the University of Amsterdam and were released to the general scholarly community in March 2002. Details of the March 2002 release, including the main part of the codebook, together with the data, are given below. More extensive documentation is available from the Steinmetz Archive:
Steinmetz Archive
P.O. Box 95110
1090 HC AMSTERDAM-THE NETHERLANDS
e-MAIL: INFO.STEINMETZ@NIWI.KNAW.NL
phone: +31 20 6225061
fax: +31 20 6238374
Codebook (.doc) (main part)
Data (spss save file -- for Windows machines)
Data (spss portable file -- for other machines)
Publications resulting in whole or in part from this study