Survey Data

The Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS) is a joint multi-national project on collecting data on candidates running for national parliamentary elections in different countries using a common core questionnaire. Data collection comprises surveys among candidates as well as relevant context information concerning the constituency of the candidate and the political system at large. CCS is conducted […]

The Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) is a collaborative research network and partnership among scholars who conduct and coordinate election studies across diverse political systems worldwide, using a common core questionnaire to achieve comparability. CNEP moreover focuses on four interconnected themes: political polarization, populism, support for democracy and political intermediation through personal discussion networks, news […]

The CSES is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries and provinces include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The thematic focus of the common module for each data collection cycle is developed by an international committee of leading scholars. The resulting data […]

The Consortium of National Election Studies (CNES) is the network of scientific national election studies that conduct voter surveys for national general elections. The CNES comparative dataset will include data from diverse national election studies, aiming to maximize data inclusion by covering as many countries, election years, and variables as possible, from 1956 until today.

The European Election Studies (EES) offer data about electoral behaviour in European Parliament elections. The Voter Study covers topics such as citizens’ perceptions of and preferences about the EU political regime, and their evaluation of its political performance. The EES offers wide opportunities for comparative and longitudinal analyses across the EU member states.