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December 17, 2024
Dear Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) user community,
The CSES project is pleased to announce that the First Advance Release of CSES Module 6 is now available. The dataset and accompanying documentation may be downloaded from the CSES website for free.
The theme of CSES Module 6 is “Representative democracy under pressure.” The Module includes four pillars: respondent assessments of the functioning of the democratic system and perceptions on system outputs; respondent attitudes to gender representation and representative democratic procedures; respondent attitudes to alternative government preferences; and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on democracy.
The release contains 12,112 respondents and 658 variables from seven election studies: Australia (2022), Brazil (2022), Denmark (2022), France (2022), Montenegro (2023), Portugal (2022), and Turkey (2023).
The release also boasts the following:
- A suite of derivative variables, including pre-coded vote choice for left/right, vote choice by ideological family, turnout and vote switching variables, generational classification variables, and a first-time voter variable
- Vote choice variables linked with expert populism classifications by CSES Collaborators
- A series of bridging variables that facilitates easy linking of CSES Module 6 data with a host of other data, including the Manifesto Project Database (MARPOR/CMP) and the Party Facts Database
- Variables that enable users to easily merge CSES Module 6 vote choice data with the CSES Integrated Module Dataset (IMD), the project’s integrated data offering which includes selected data from CSES Modules 1-5
CSES Advance Releases are preliminary versions and lack some of the checking, cleaning, processing, documentation, data, and variables that we anticipate in the eventual Full Release of the product. Many election studies and variables that will eventually be present in the CSES Module 6 Full Release are unavailable in this file. Advance Releases are provided as a service to the CSES user community for those analysts who find it valuable to work with preliminary versions of the dataset.
We would appreciate being notified of any errors in the dataset or documentation by email to: [email protected]. We hope that until the Full Release of CSES Module 6 is available, users will find this and future CSES Module 6 Advance Releases helpful in their work.
We thank all our Collaborators for contributing to CSES Module 6. And to our users: thank you for supporting the CSES project!