Socio-political attitudes 1979

The aim of the study is basically the same as in Socio-Political Attitudes 1975. The central aim of the study is to investigate various aspects of political perception as a function of socio-political ideology. The politically perceived objects consist mainly of political parties, party leaders, and countries. Political perception is measured using multidimensional scaling, semantic differential, and political differential techniques. Political ideology is operationalized through party affiliation and socio-political attitudes (measured using a specially designed scale). Based on these data, certain individual-level indices of cognitive articulation and cognitive differentiation are generated and subsequently related to the individual’s socio-political ideology. In the first part of the study, several new questions concerning politics within the family and in the media have been added. Questions regarding cars, housing conditions, and siblings have also been included. The assessments of religiosity and extremism have been removed. The second part deals with the same group. Evaluations of the Swedish political parties and party leaders are included in this section together with party preferences. Please note that the data files are in .ORIG format and require some conversion before use.