SolPop is a socio-political survey that entails data about a number of political and sociological aspects for a Greek random sample. Topics are among others the European Union and its legitimacy as well as opinions on cross-national redistribution in the light of different crises. The target population of the SolPop survey consisted of adults living in private households in Greece. 1200 respondents were asked a total of 64 questions.
These are the replication files for the artile A Step Closer to a Transnational Party System? published in Journal of Common Market Studies https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12755. The data used are the EU Profiler and EUandI party data both to be found at GESIS: http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.11689 and http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12138
These replication files contain a file that adds to the above mentioned data the number of seats for each party in the European parliament, and a file that runs our analysis and creates our graphs for both election years 2009 and 2014.
Abstract of the paper: At this stage of European integration and given the high degree of Europe's politicization and salience caused by the crisis, representative democracy in the EU can only function if parties mobilize beyond borders. We examine whether European Party Groups (EPG) in the European Parliament (EP) offer distinct policy alternatives and how coherent these are. We use party position data collected by two Voting Advice Applications designed for the 2009 and 2014 EP elections respectively (EUProfiler and Euandi). We find evidence of competition between EPGs groups on both left right issues and European integration; on the latter issue, there is greater differentiation within the anti-EU camp. Coherence within EPG exists, though it varies across issues, EPGs and between election years examined: it is greater on European integration than on left-right issues and it is particularly high for right wing Eurosceptics though for most parties it deteriorates between 2009 and 2014.
These data and syntax files can be used to replicate the published Paper in the Journal of European Union Politics by Katsanidou and Otjes "How the European debt crisis reshaped national political space: the case of Greece". The data come from the following sources: 1. CSES (2015) CSES Module 4: 2011-2016. DOI: 10.7804/cses.module4.2015-03-20 2. Preference Matcher' consortium (www.preferencematcher.org) Gemenis K. and Triga V., data set Voting Advice Application for the Greece Parliamentary Elections May 2012, file: Greece_clean_parl_may.csv
The Abstract of the article: Where Mair (2000) saw a limited impact of Europeanisation on national party politics, other authors (e.g. Kriesi et al. 2008) proposed that in addition to the pre-existing economic left-right dimension a separate EU dimension structures the national political space. This article looks at the Greek bail-out during the European sovereign debt crisis to examine how Europeanisation can change the national political space. The bail-out came with memoranda that set the main lines of Greek economic policy for the coming years. Accepting these policies was connected with remaining in the eurozone. This restructured the political space: the economic and European integration form one dimension. A second relevant dimension focuses on cultural issues. The economic/European dimension is a stronger predictor of vote choice than the cultural dimension.
This study asks for data on social and political issues in Germany and Greece in 2020. The focus is largely on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the opinions and attitudes of the surveyed people about the political situation in their respective country and in the European Union.
A characteristic of recent decades of scholarly work in the social sciences has been the increased amounts of empirical research. Access and availability of data are prerequisites for further research, replication work, and scientific development. As international peer-reviewed journals have gradually become the central forum for research debate, moves towards data sharing are dependent upon the policies of journals regarding data availability. This dataset presents data availability policies in political science in the year 2011.
The empirical social sciences largely rely on the collection and analysis of research data. In recent years, several recommendations on the more open sharing of research data have been published. These recommendations aim at making science more transparent and replicable. In reality, however, many important research datasets are still not accessible. The project investigates how different factors influence the data sharing behavior of the authors of research papers in sociology and political sciences. It starts with an analysis of journal attributes and the articles published by selected journals to show how authors deal with their data. Second, a survey among the authors is conducted based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. This shows how personal characteristics are related to authors' data sharing behavior.
The empirical social sciences largely rely on the collection and analysis of research data. In recent years, several recommendations on the more open sharing of research data have been published. These recommendations aim at making science more transparent and replicable. In reality, however, many important research datasets are still not accessible. The project investigates how different factors influence the data sharing behavior of the authors of research papers in sociology and political sciences. It starts with an analysis of journal attributes and the articles published by selected journals to show how authors deal with their data. Second, a survey among the authors is conducted based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. This shows how personal characteristics are related to authors' data sharing behavior.
The quality of methodology sections is the result of interaction between academic cultures of data sharing, effective application of rules, academic excellence and good quality Research Data Management (RDM).This data set is based on the coding of 66 published empirical articles that used data from at least one wave of the European Values Survey (http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.11005) and was published at least in pre-print form between 1984 and 2013. It tests for an article describing the methodology of data collection.
The governments' mitigation measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented in our post-war history. For overcoming this crisis, citizens are expected to act in solidarity in order to control the spread of the virus and keep public health systems functional. At the same time, they are called to cope with confinement, limitations of their freedom (movement, religion etc.) and economic activity. SAFE-19 provides a social sciences perspective on the concept of solidarity which has become a central claim for the fight against COVID-19.
What are the sources and the scope of solidarity when society as a whole is faced with nearly impossible trade-offs? and What are the conditions that enable a political community to act in solidarity and support solidary measures within the nation state and within the EU? Using different trade-offs, the project examines how societal solidarity is addressed, reflected and socially perceived in the different phases of the crisis. The closure of large parts of the retail trade and gastronomy, perceived as a "lock-down", play just as important a role as compliance with the obligation to wear a mask and different attitudes towards vacation trips and their possible follow-up costs.
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Die von der Regierung ergriffenen Maßnahmen im Kampf gegen die COVID-19-Pandemie sind beispiellos in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Um die Kapazitäten des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens nicht überzustrapazieren und um die Verbreitung des Virus zu kontrollieren, wird von den Bürger_innen solidarisches Handeln erwartet. Gleichzeitig sind sie dazu angehalten, Einschränkungen ihrer Freiheiten, besonders ihrer Bewegungsfreiheit, sowie wirtschaftliche Härten zu akzeptieren. SAFE-19 blickt aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive auf das Konzept der Solidarität, welches im Kontext dieser außergewöhnlichen Situation eine zentrale Rolle spielt.
Was sind die Grundlagen und das Ausmaß der Solidarität, wenn die Gesellschaft als Ganzes mit der Abwägung zwischen gleichermaßen folgeschweren Alternativen konfrontiert wird? Welche Umstände ermöglichen es einer politischen Gemeinschaft, in Solidarität zu handeln und Solidaritätsmaßnahmen im eigenen Land und innerhalb der EU zu unterstützen? Anhand unterschiedlicher Güterabwägungen (Trade-offs) untersucht das Projekt, wie gesellschaftliche Solidarität in den unterschiedlichen Phasen der Krise adressiert, reflektiert und gesellschaftlich perzipiert wird. Die als "Lock-down" empfundene Schließung von großen Teilen des Einzelhandels und der Gastronomie spielen dabei ebenso eine Rolle wie die Befolgung der Maskentragepflicht und unterschiedlicher Einstellungen zu Urlaubsreisen und deren eventuellen Folgekosten.
Balancing speed and quality during crises pose challenges for ensuring the value and utility of data in social science research. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular underscores the need for high-quality data and rapid dissemination. Given the importance of behavioral measures and compliance with measures to contain the pandemic, social science research has played a key role for policymaking during this global crisis.
This study addresses two key research questions: How FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) are social science data on the COVID-19 pandemic? Which study features are related to the level of FAIRness scores of datasets? We assess the FAIRness of n=1,131 articles, retrieved through a keyword search in the Web of Science database, employing both automated and manual coding methods. Our study inclusion criteria encompass empirical studies on the COVID-19 pandemic published between 2019-2023 with a social science focus and explicit reference to the underlying dataset(s). Our analysis of n=45 datasets reveals substantial differences in FAIRness for different types of research on the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall FAIRness of data is acceptable, although particularly Reusability scores fall short, in both the manual and the automatic assessment. Further, articles explicitly linked to the Social Science concept in the OpenAlex database exhibit a higher mean overall FAIRness value. Based on these results, we derive recommendations for balancing ethical obligations and the potential tradeoff between speed and data (sharing) quality in social-scientific crisis research.
The replication data contains the manual and automatic coded values for FAIR criteria and the complete code to re-produce the results for the article.
Die vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderte Studie wird gemeinsam von GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, der Universität Heidelberg und dem Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung im Rahmen des Projekts Solikris durchgeführt. Solikris untersucht die Auswirkungen von Krisen auf die Solidaritätsdynamik in Gesellschaft und Politik. Zu diesem Zweck werden Daten zu alltäglichen, sozialen und politischen Themen in Deutschland und Europa im Jahr 2020 erhoben. Der Fokus liegt dabei vor allem auf den Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Meinungen und Gefühle der befragten Bürgerinnen und Bürger zum Alltag und zur politischen Situation in ihren jeweiligen Ländern.
