MAIN PUBLICATION 2005-ELECTION:

 

 

8. maj 2007: Det nye politiske landskab Folketingsvalget 2005 i perspektiv. Edited by Jørgen Goul Andersen, Ole Borre, Kasper Møller Hansen, Hans Jørgen Nielsen, Academica. 352 sider. Kr. 340,00. ISBN 8776754499.

2005 Election Technical report

Press conference May 8. 2007

 

The Danish Election Project was founded in 1971 and has conducted nation-wide representative surveys of all subsequent elections. Each election study includes (1) a main survey, typically based on a final sample of 2000 respondents (in 1973 and 1988 the surveys were based on panel data, otherwise on new samples from one election to another). (2) From 1984 onwards, the election study includes a second data set with 3-4000 respondents but including only social background variables, party choice in previous election and (occasionally) a few others.

The studies from the Danish Election Project provide unique time series on party choice and political attitudes. The focus of the Project has not only been on elections but equally on broad processes of social and political change. This also means that the data set has been widely used for purposes reaching beyond the traditional focus on explaining and predicting elections and electoral behaviour. This includes, e.g. encompassing analyses of:

• long-term changes in political cleavages and changes of the party system, including the emergence of new parties such as new left or new right parties
• processes of political and social mobilization
• changing gender differences in political attitudes, party choice and participation
• generational change
• new sector cleavages between the public and the private sector
• political divisions between outsiders and insiders on the labour market
• political efficacy, political trust, and support for democratic values.
• political attitudes towards the welfare state, the environment, immigration and refugees, European integration, international cooperation etc.

Data from the Election Project are freely available from Danish Data Archive (DDA) not later than two years after the election; publications based on these data should be sent to the coordinator.

 

Election Studies 1971-present
Full list of Publications from the Election Studies
Main Publication 1994: Voting and Political Attitudes in Denmark (Borre, Goul Andersen)
Main Publication 1998: Vælgere med omtanke (Andersen, Borre, Goul Andersen and Nielsen)
Main Publication 2001: Politisk forandring. Værdipolitik og nye skillelinjer ved folketingsvalget 2001
Main Publication 2005: Det nye politiske landskab Folketingsvalget 2005 i perspektiv
The rightist turn of the 1990s - An analysis of the causes of the electoral turn to the right at the general elections from 1990 to 2001 (Jimmy van der Brugge og Henning Voss)
Election 2005 (members only)

Online data: www.surveybank.dk

The Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration is the centre of much survey research on elections and parties, political attitudes and opinion formation, and on political participation and citizenship.

The Election Research Group (which is an abbreviation of "Research Group on Election- and Party Research, Opinion Formation and Survey Methodology") is a research network which coordinates these research efforts. Its main focus is on describing and understanding changing political cleavages, old and new political parties, political mobilization processes, short-and long-term changes in political attitudes and values, and its relationship to social change on the one hand and to public policy formation on the other. This links studies in political sociology to general social analysis as well as to policy analysis.