Research Catalog

Title

Political action : an eight nation study, 1973-1976 / principal investigators, Samuel H. Barnes [and others].

Publication

Ann Arbor, MI : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers and distributors], 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Barnes, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1931-
• Universität zu Köln. Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Summary

The wave of unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s in advanced industrial societies provided the impetus for this cross-national study of conventional and unconventional forms of political participation. This is an integrated dataset of national sample surveys that were conducted via personal interview during 1973-1976 in eight nations: Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, United States, Italy, Switzerland, and Finland. Part 1 contains data gathered in a cross-section sample from 12,588 respondents 16 years of age and over. Part 2 contains data gathered from 1,635 parent-child pairs (with the child being 16-20 years of age) who were part of the first sample and who were further interviewed. The surveys focused on various forms and combinations of political activity ranging from voting to protest actions, and on individual propensities to perform these activities. Among the factors explored in the surveys as contributors to those political activities are personal satisfaction and deprivation, interest in politics, perception of over- and underprivileged groups, left-wing/right-wing self-placement, political attitudes and values, materialist/post-materialist standards, voting behavior, conventional political participation, subjective social class, system responsiveness, political efficacy, attitudes toward young people, ideological sophistication, and satisfaction with government's political, social, and economic policies. Demographic data collected from respondents include age, sex, ethnic origin, number of siblings, father's occupation, family's wealth when young, parents' political preference and education, respondent's religious activity, marital status, number of children, educational level, employment status, organizational membership, current occupation, union membership, and personal, family, and desired income.

Series Statement

ICPSR ; 7777

Uniform Title

ICPSR (Series) ; 7777.

Subject

• Political participation > Europe > Statistics
• Political participation > United States > Statistics
• Political participation
• beliefs
• cultural values
• family relationships
• income
• life satisfaction
• political action
• political affiliation
• political awareness
• political efficacy
• political ideologies
• political participation
• social attitudes
• trust in government
• voting behavior
• Europe
• United States

Genre/Form

• Statistics
• Statistics.
• Statistiques.

Note

• Codebook available in print and electronic format.
• Title from title screen (viewed on April 18, 2006).

Access (note)

• Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

File Type (note)

• Extent of collection: 2 data files + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS setup files + SPSS setup files + Stata setup files.

Event (note)

• Date(s) of collection: 1973-1976.
• Time period: 1973-1976.

Coverage (note)

• Geographic coverage: Austria, Europe, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United States, Global.

Cite As (note)

• Barnes, Samuel H., Max Kaase, et al. POLITICAL ACTION: AN EIGHT NATION STUDY, 1973-1976 [Computer file]. ICPSR07777-v1. Conducted by University of Michigan, Survey Research Center, et al. Cologne, Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Sozialforschung/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers and distributors], 2006-04-05.

Funding (note)

• Funding agency: British Social Science Research Council [Great Britain], Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Germany], University of Tilburg [Netherlands], Austrian National Science Foundation [Austria], National Institute of Mental Health, United States Army Research Institute [United States], Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerce, Roma, Unione Industriale Di Torino [Italy], Fond Nationale Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique [Switzerland], Social Science Research Council of the Finnish Academy [Finland].

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Data format: logical record length with SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files, SAS transport (XPORT) file, SPSS portable file, and Stata system file.
• Extent of processing: UNDOCCHK. PR/ MDATA. PR/ FREQ. PR/ SCAN/ REFORM. DOC.

OCLC

• ocn175313212
• 175313212
• SCSB-1902215

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library