About
The CSES is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world.
2017 Planning Committee Meeting in Mannheim, Germany
Participating countries and provinces include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro/electoral system variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis.
The research agenda, questionnaires, and study design are developed by an international committee of leading scholars of electoral politics, political science, and survey research. The design is then implemented in each country and province by their foremost social scientists.
2016 Plenary Session in Philadelphia, United States
Other Comparative Projects
Comparative research is an important and expanding field with many exciting opportunities for analysts. You may be interested in learning about other such projects, and so we list some of them for you here.
- ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
- Afrobarometer
- Arab Barometer
- Arab Trans
- Asia Barometer
- Asian Barometer
- Chapel Hill Expert Survey on political parties (CHES)
- Comparative Agendas Project (CAP)
- Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS)
- Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP)
- Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA)
- Electoral Integrity Project
- Eurobarometer
- European Election Studies
- European Social Survey
- European Values Study
- Executive Approval Project
- International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
- Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
- Latinobarómetro
- Making Electoral Democracy Work
- Manifesto Project (MAPOR)
- New Europe Barometer (NEB) Surveys
- ParlGov Parliaments and governments database
- PPEG (Political Parties, Presidents, Elections, and Governments) Database
- Project on International Election Monitoring
- Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU)
- Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
- Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer
- True European Voter
- Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
- World Values Survey (WVS)