Global Barometer Surveys. Report on Key Findings: Exploring Support for Democracy across the Globe: G.B.S Report Download

Data-sets produced by the RC17 network:

  • Afro Barometer waves 1-7 (2000-2019): https://www.afrobarometer.org/data/merged-data
  • Latino Barometro waves 1-20 (1992-2020): https://www.latinobarometro.org/
  • Arab Barometer waves 1-6 (2006-2019): https://www.arabbarometer.org/survey-data/data-downloads/
  • Asian Baroemter waves 1-5 (2018): http://asianbarometer.org/data/data-release
  • Americas Barometer surveys (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016/17, and 2018/19): https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/raw-data.php
  • Global Barometer Survey, Wave 1 (2005-2011) Pooled Datafile, https://www.globalbarometer.net/. Taipei: Hu Fu Center for East Asia Democratic Studies, NTU [distributor], 2020.
  • Global Barometer Survey, Wave 2 (2011-2013) Pooled Datafile, https://www.globalbarometer.net/. Taipei: Hu Fu Center for East Asia Democratic Studies, NTU [distributor], 2020.
  • Global Barometer Survey, Wave 3 (2014-2016) Pooled Datafile, https://www.globalbarometer.net/. Taipei: Hu Fu Center for East Asia Democratic Studies, NTU [distributor], 2020.
  • Haerpfer, C., Inglehart, R., Moreno, A., Welzel, C., Kizilova, K., Diez-Medrano, J., Lagos, M., Norris, P., Ponarin, E. & Puranen B. et al. (eds.). 2020. World Values Survey: Round Seven - Country-Pooled Datafile Version: https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.
  • Inglehart, R., C. Haerpfer, A. Moreno, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen et al. (eds.). 2020. World Values Survey: All Rounds - Country-Pooled Datafile Version: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWVL.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.

Selected publications of the members of RC 17 Comparative Public Opinion:

  • Carlin, Ryan E., Matthew M. Singer, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister (Eds). The Latin American Voter: Pursuing Representation and Accountability in Challenging Contexts. University of Michigan Press. 2015.
  • L Kang, YH Chu. China's rise through world public opinion: Editorial introduction, Journal of Contemporary China 24 (92), 197-202, 2015.
  • Y Chu, M Huang, J Lu. Enter the dragon: how East Asians view a rising China. Global Asia 10 (3), 112-120, 2015.
  • ZT Golenkova, NP Narbut. History of Sociological Thought in Central and Eastern European Countries. Belgrade: Zavod za udžbenike. 2015
  • Y Chu, L Kang, M Huang. How East Asians view the rise of China. Journal of Contemporary China 24 (93), 398-420, 2015.
  • Y Chu, B Welsh. Millennials and East Asia's Democratic Future. Journal of Democracy 26 (2), 151-164, 2015.
  • Y Chu, H Pan, W Wu. Regime Legitimacy in East Asia: Why Non-Democratic States Fare Better than Democracies, Global Asia 10 (3), 98-105, 2015.
  • HH Tung, YH Chu. Signaling peace: a theory of the ECFA and a peace dividend beyond the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan and The'China Impact', 128-147, 2015.
  • S Abhi, V Venugopal, S Shastri. Social Entrepreneurship—Building Sustainability Through Business Models and Measurement of Social Impact. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, 295-323. 2015.
  • Mattes, R. South Africa’s emerging black middle class: a harbinger of political change? Journal of International Development. 27, 5, p. 665-692 27 p., 2015.
  • M Huang, Y Chu. The Sway of Geopolitics, Economic Interdependence and Cultural Identity: why are some Asians more favorable toward China's rise than others? Journal of Contemporary China 24 (93), 421-441, 2015.
  • YH Chu, MH Huang, J Lu. Understanding of democracy in East Asian societies. Asian Barometer Working Paper Series 84, 27-48, 2015.
  • Gunther, Richard & Beck, Paul & Magalhães, Pedro & Moreno, Alejandro. (2015). Voting in Old and New Democracies.
  • Tang, Wenfang and Dong Erico Yu. 2015. “Public Policy Satisfaction in Urban China,” East Asian Policy, vol. 7, no. 2, 63-77. 2015
  • Tang, Wenfang. 2015. “Big Data and Small Data”, Journal of Sun Yat-Sen University (Social Science Edition), no. 6, vol. 55, general no. 258 (大数据与小数据：社会科学研究方法 的探讨，中山大学学报-社会科学版，2015 年第 6 期第 55 卷，总 258 期）, 141-146. 2015
  • M Tessler. Mapping and Explaining Attitudes toward Political Islam among Ordinary Citizens in the Middle East and North Africa. Economic Research Forum Working Paper, 2015.
  • M Tessler. Islam and politics in the Middle East: Explaining the views of ordinary citizens. Indiana University Press, 2015.
  • C De Miguel, AA Jamal, M Tessler. Elections in the Arab World: Why do citizens turn out? Comparative Political Studies 48 (11), 1355-1388, 2015.
  • M Tessler, J Miller-Gonzalez. MAGHREBI YOUTH IN THE WAKE OF THE ARAB SPRING, North African Politics: Change and Continuity 18, 2015.
  • B Welsh, KP Huang, Y Chu. Burma votes for change: Clashing attitudes toward democracy. Journal of Democracy 27 (2), 132-140, 2016.
  • Denemark, D. (ed.), Mattes, R. (ed.) & Niemi, R. G. (ed.), Growing Up Democratic: Does It Make A Difference? Boulder, CO. 350 p., 2016
  • Haerpfer C., Kizilova K. Social Capital as a factor of socio-economic and political development of Eurasia post-Soviet countries. Scientific and theoretical journal Sociologia. 2016. ISSN 2071-0968. No. 1. P.17-38 (in Russ.) Minsk, Belarus State University.
  • Haerpfer C., Kizilova K. World’s largest social science infrastructure and academic survey research program: WVSA experience in New Independent States. Scientific Journal “Bulletin of People’s Friendship University of Russia. Series: Sociology” Vol. 16, N. 4, pp. 719-740, 2016.
  • Holman, Mirya R., Jennifer L. Merolla, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Terrorist Threat, Male Stereotypes, and Candidate Evaluations. Political Research Quarterly 69(1): 134-147. 2016.
  • Kizilova, K., Haerpfer, C. Patterns of conventional and unconventional political participation in global comparison. European Journal of Law and Political Sciences, «East West» Association for Advanced Studies and Higher Education GmbH. Vienna. Pp.22-26, №3, 2016.
  • Kizilova, K., Haerpfer, C. Social capital as the factor of societal transformations in post-communist societies. Austrian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, «East West» Association for Advanced Studies and Higher Education GmbH. Vienna. Pp. 22-26, 7-8 (4) 2016.
  • Mattes, R. & Mozaffar, S., Legislatures and democratic development in Africa. In : African Studies Review. 59, 3, p. 201-215 15 p., 2016.
  • Mattes, R., Mujani, S., Liddle, R. W., Shi, T. & Chu, Y., 2016, Parties, elections, voters and democracy in Voting In Old and New Democracies. Gunther, R., Beck, P., Magalhaes, P. & Moreno, A. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 193-229 37 p.
  • E Chang, Y Chu. Quality of political choice and popular orientation toward democracy. Democratization in Taiwan: Challenges in Transformation, 110, 2016.
  • Y Chu, YT Chang, M Huang, M Weatherall. Re-Assessing the Popular Foundations of Asian Democracies: Findings from Four Waves of the Asian Barometer Survey, Taipei: National Taiwan University, 2016.
  • YH Chu. Sources of regime legitimacy in Confucian societies. Journal of Chinese Governance 1 (2), 195-213. 2016
  • Mattes, R. Sub-Saharan Africa: the positive impact of effective democracy. In Growing Up Democratic: Does It Make A Difference? Denemark, D., Mattes, R. & Niemi, R. G. (eds.). Boulder, CO, p. 151-180 30 p., 2016.
  • Y Chu, L Diamond, K Templeman. Taiwan's Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016.
  • VV Kostenko, PA Kuzmuchev, ED Ponarin. Attitudes towards gender equality and perception of democracy in the Arab world. Democratization 23 (5), 862-891. 2016
  • Puhle, Hans-Jürgen & Gunther, Richard & Montero, José. (2016). Intermediation, Mobilization, Voting, and Citizen Participation: Findings from In-Depth and Longitudinal Analyses of Spain. 10.4324/9781315691558-7.
  • Tang, Wenfang. 2016. Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability. New York: Oxford University Press. Read it (Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award)
  • Tang, Wenfang, Hu, Yue and Jin, Shuai. 2016. “Affirmative Inaction: Education, Language Proficiency, and Socioeconomic Attainment among China’s Uyghur Minority,” Chinese Sociological Review, Summer, vol. 48 (4):1-22. 2016
  • J Gengler, M Tessler. Views of the Gulf Cooperation Council among Qatari and Other Gulf Nationals. The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University, 2016.
  • Y Chu, Y Chang. Battle for Influence: Perceptions in Asia of China and the US. Global Asia 12 (1), 104-111, 2017.
  • Castorena, Oscar, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Representing the National Economic Agenda in Latin America: Variation by Fat and Lean Times and Party Brands. Electoral Studies 45: 208-218, 2017.
  • Cohen, Mollie J., Facundo K. Salles Kobilanski, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Electoral Volatility in Latin America. Journal of Politics 80(3): 1017-1022, 2017.
  • RF Inglehart, E Ponarin, RC Inglehart. Cultural change, slow and fast: The distinctive trajectory of norms governing gender equality and sexual orientation. Social Forces 95 (4), 1313-1340, 2017.
  • Haerpfer C., Kizilova K. The World Values Survey. In: George Ritzer & J. Michael Ryan (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog954
  • Holman, Mirya R., Jennifer L. Merolla, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Can Experience Overcome Stereotypes in Times of Terror Threat? Research & Politics 4(1). 2017.
  • T Cheng, Y Chu. Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia. Routledge, 2017.
  • A GASPARISHVILI, N NARBUT, A ONOSOV, Z PUZANOVA. RUSSIAN MIGRATION POLICY IN THE LAST 25 YEARS. ANALELE UNIVERSITĂŢII DIN ORADEA, 213, 2017.
  • Mattes, R. South African politics and society. Comparative Governance: Political Structure and Diversity Across the Globe. Kurzer, P. (ed.). [New York], 38 p., 2017
  • S Shastri. State of Democracy in South Asia (SDSA): Report II. Jain University Press, 2017.
  • NP Narbut, ZV Puzanova, TI Larina. Student life in European dimension. Sociological Studies 5 (5), 47-50, 2017.
  • Mattes, R. & Glenn, I. The rise of political advertising in a traditional campaign environment: the case of South Africa. In Routledge Handbook of Political Advertising. Holz-Bacha, C. & Just, M. R. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 389-402 14 p., 2017.
  • Y Chu, Y Chang. Xi’s Foreign-Policy Turn and Asian Perceptions of a Rising China. Global Asia 12 (1), 104-111. 2017.
  • Tang, Wenfang, Yang Zhang and Martin, Sheri. 2017. “Revolution Postponed: The limitation of the internet in promoting democracy in China,” in Shan Wei and Yang Lijun, eds. The Rising Civil Society and State-Society Relations in China, New Jersey, London and Singapore: World Scientific.
  • Tang, Wenfang. 2017. 《如何测量中国民主：关于民主与政治幸福感的讨论》(Measuring Democracy in China: A Discussion on Democracy and Political Happiness), Issue 1, No. 10, National Academy of Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China，中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院《思想评论》2017 年第一期（总第 10 期）. 2017.
  • A Diop, AE Jardina, M Tessler, J Wittrock. Antecedents of Trust among Citizens and Non-citizens in Qatar. Journal of International Migration and Integration 18 (1), 183-202, 2017.
  • M Tessler, H Tout. Religion, Trust, and Other Determinants of Muslim Attitudes toward Gender Equality: Evidence and Insights from Fifty-Four Surveys in the Middle East and North Africa.Taiwan Journal of Democracy 13 (2), 2017.
  • ZV Puzanova, NP Narbut, TI Larina, LA Antonova. Contexts of intercultural interaction in the high school. Polis. Political Studies 4 (4), 143-155, 2018.
  • K Saraswarthi, S Shastri. Democracy Practice: Paradigm Shift in Indian Politics. Indian Journal of Human Relations 52 (2), 166-173, 2018.
  • B Sokolov, RF Inglehart, E Ponarin, I Vartanova, W Zimmerman. Disillusionment and anti-Americanism in Russia: From pro-American to anti-American attitudes, 1993–2009. International Studies Quarterly 62 (3), 534-547, 2018.
  • Haerpfer, C., Kizilova, K. Chapter 21. Democratization in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe// Democratization / Editorial Board: Christian Haerpfer, Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzl, Patrick Bernhagen - Oxford University Press: Second Edition, 2018. Pp. 322-340.
  • Haerpfer, C., Kizilova, K. Chapter 22. Democratization in Post-Soviet Eurasia// Democratization / Editorial Board: Christian Haerpfer, Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzl, Patrick Bernhagen - Oxford University Press: Second Edition, 2018. Pp. 341-365.
  • A Almakaeva, C Welzel, E Ponarin. Human empowerment and trust in strangers: The multilevel evidence. Social Indicators Research 139 (3), 923-962, 2018.
  • Y Chang, Y Chu, M Weatherall. Is there still an Asian way? Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia, 2018
  • Lupu, Noam, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Maximizing Benefits from Survey-Based Research. PS: Political Science & Politics. Special Symposium on “Whose Research Is It?” 51(3): 563-565, 2018.
  • Merolla, Jennifer L., and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Threat and Information Acquisition: Evidence from an Eight Country Study. Journal of Experimental Political Science 5(3): 167-181, 2018.
  • RS Foa, R Inglehart, E Ponarin, T Karabchuk. Set-Point theory and societal collapse: The case of Russia. Journal of Happiness Studies 19 (6), 1639-1656. 2018.
  • Mattes Robert, Moreno Alejandro. Social and political trust in developing countries : sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust (2018) https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274801.013.10
  • G Yusupova, E Ponarin. Social remittances in religion: Muslim migrants in Russia and transformation of Islamic practices. Problems of Post-Communism 65 (3), 188-200, 2018.
  • Mattes Robert. Support for democracy. Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Politics (2018) (2018). https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.622
  • NP Narbut, IV Trotsuk. The social wellbeing of the postsocialist countries' youth (on the example of Russia, Kazakhstan and Czech Republic): Comparative analysis of fears and hopes. RUDN Journal of Sociology 18 (2), 2018.
  • NP Narbut, IV Trotsuk. THE SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF THE POST-SOCIALIST COUNTRIES’YOUTH (ON THE EXAMPLE OF RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN AND CZECH REPUBLIC): COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VALUE ORIENTATIONS (Part 1). RUDN Journal of Sociology 18 (1), 131-155, 2018.
  • Gunther, Richard & Montero, José & Puhle, Jürgen. (2018). ICPS-WP352 Democracy intermediation and voting in Spain (vol 2).
  • Tang, Wenfang. 2017. “Same Bed, Different Dreams: The Bifurcation of the Chinese Communist Party,” in Shan Wei and Yang Lijun, eds. The Rising Civil Society and State-Society Relations in China, New Jersey, London and Singapore: World Scientific. Reprinted in The Chinese Communist Party in Transformation: The Crisis of Identity and Possibility for Renewal, Zheng, Yongnian and Lance LP Gore, eds., New Jersey, London and Singapore: World Scientific (2018).
  • Tang, Wenfang. 2018. “The ‘Surprise’ of Authoritarian Resilience in China,” American Affairs, February, February 20: 101-117. Translated in Chinese: 民意调查与中国政权韧性的五大“意外”发现，《中国政治学》，2019 第三辑，41-56. 2018.
  • A Yakter, M Tessler. Understanding Multiple Perspectives: The Contribution of a Short-Essay Assignment to Teaching about the Arab–Israeli Conflict. PS: Political Science & Politics 51 (2), 434-439. 2018.
  • Y Chu, C Wu. 5 Equality of opportunity and satisfaction with the political system. Inequality and Democratic Politics in East Asia, 2019.
  • B Sokolov, E Ponarin. Disillusionment and the Growth of Mass-Level Euroscepticism in Post-Communist East-Central Europe. Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 89, 2019.
  • Holman, Mirya, Jennifer L. Merolla, Ding Wang, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. Terrorism, Gender, and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Electoral Studies. Vol. 61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2019.03.009, 2019
  • Y Chu, M Huang, J Lu. How East Asians view a Rising China. Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics, 262-283, 2019.
  • Clayton Amanda, Josefsson Cecilia, Mattes Robert, Mozaffar Shaheen. In whose interest? Gender and mass-elite priority congruence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Comparative Political Studies Vol 52, pp. 69-101 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414018758767
  • Kizilova K., Mosakova E.A. The birth rate in BRICS countries under the gender inequality in the labor market. RUDN journal of Sociology. Vol 19, No 4 (2019). Pp. 630-638.
  • Y Chu, M Huang, J Lu. The competition over soft power between China and the United States: an analysis of how East Asians view a rising China. Handbook on China and Globalization, 2019.
  • S Shastri. The Modi Factor in the 2019 Lok Sabha Election: How Critical Was It to the BJP Victory? Studies in Indian Politics 7 (2), 206-218, 2019.
  • Gunther, Richard & Beck, Paul & Nisbet, Erik. (2019). “Fake news” and the defection of 2012 Obama voters in the 2016 presidential election. Electoral Studies. 61. 10.1016/j.electstud.2019.03.006.
  • Yingnan Joseph Zhou, Wenfang Tang and Xuchuan Lei. 2019. “Social Desirability of Dissent: an IAT Experiment with Chinese University Students,” Journal of Chinese Political Science, August 6. 1-26. 2019.
  • JJ Gengler, M Tessler, R Lucas, J Forney. ‘Why Do You Ask?’The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World. British Journal of Political Science, 1-22, 2019.
  • M Tessler. Introduction: Reflections on Scholarship and Fieldwork in the Middle East and North Africa. PS: Political Science & Politics 52 (3), 481-484, 2019.
  • Coan, Travis, Jennifer L. Merolla, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, and Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga. “Emotional Responses Shape the Substance of Information Seeking under Conditions of Threat.” Political Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912920949320. 2020.
  • K Templeman, Y Chu, LJ Diamond. Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwain: The Ma Ying-jeou Years. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated, 2020.
  • NP Narbut, IA Aleshkovski, AT Gasparishvili, OV Krukhmaleva. Forced shift to distance learning as an impetus to technological changes in the Russian higher education. RUDN Journal of Sociology 20 (3), 611-621, 2020.
  • Haerpfer, C., Inglehart, R., Moreno, A., Welzel, C., Kizilova, K., Diez-Medrano, J., Lagos, M., Norris, P., Ponarin, E. & Puranen B. et al. (eds.). 2020. World Values Survey: Round Seven - Country-Pooled Datafile Version: https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.
  • Haerpfer, C., Kizilova, K. Values and Transformation in Central Asia. In A.Mihr (Ed.), Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region, Vol 1, Springer Publisher (2020). Pp.7-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42775-7_2
  • Inglehart, R., C. Haerpfer, A. Moreno, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen et al. (eds.). 2020. World Values Survey: All Rounds - Country-Pooled Datafile Version: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWVL.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.
  • Logan, Carolyn, Pablo Parás, Michael Robbins, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. “Improving Data Quality in Face-to-Face Survey Research.” PS: Political Science & Politics 53(1): 46-50, 2020.
  • Y Frantsuz, E Ponarin. The Impact of Societal Instability on Demographic Behavior (The Case of Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia). Population Research and Policy Review, 1-31.2020
  • Yun-han Chu, Kai-Ping Huang, Marta Lagos, Robert Mattes. 2020. "A Lost Decade for Third-Wave Democracies?". Journal of Democracy. 31, 2, page 161-181. Johns Hopkins University Press / Washington, DC 20004. USA
  • Liu, Xiaoyan and Tang, Wenfang (primary author). 2020. Sexism in Taiwan and Mainland China: A Social Experimental Study”, China: An International Journal, 2020
  • Tang, Wenfang. 2020. “Publishing High Quality Quantitative Social Science Research Papers: A Reviewer’s Reflections” (in Chinese, 定量政治学论文审稿笔记)，《中国政治学》2020.
  • Wenfang Tang and Jingjing Lin. 2020. “The CPC as a Populist Authoritarian Party: An Impressionable Years Analysis”, China: An International Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (February): 26-46. 2020.