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Item-question_text spreadsheet #2

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fsolt commented 2 years ago

We don't currently have an item-question_text spreadsheet akin to this one (for PGE) for these data. Should include responses as well.

Copied-and-pasted text from Cl2020 APSR appendix:

  1. Three statements items 1.1. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion? (AfroBarometer) • Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government • Under some circumstances, an authoritarian government can be preferable to a democratic one • For someone like me, it does not matter what kind of government we have. 1.2. Which of the following statements comes closest to your own opinion? (AsianBarometer) • For people like me, it does not matter whether we have a democracy • Under some circumstances, an authoritarian government can be preferable • Democracy is always preferable to any other kind of government 1.3. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion? (ArabBarometer) • Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government • Under some circumstances, an nondemocratic government can be preferable • For people like me, it does not matter what kind of government we have 1.4. Here are three opinions about political systems. Which one comes closest to your own way of thinking? (EuroBarometer) • Democracy is the best political system in all circumstances • In certain circumstances a dictatorship could be a good thing • Whether we live in a democracy or under a dictatorship makes no difference to people like me 1.5. With which of the following phrases are you in most agreement? (Latin American Public Opinion Project) • For people like me, it doesn’t matter whether a regime is democratic or non-democratic • Democracy is preferable to any other type of government • Under some circumstances an authoritarian government can be preferable to a democratic one 1.6. Which of the following statements do you agree with most? (LatinoBarometer) • Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government • In certain situations, an authoritarian government can be preferable to a democratic one • Topeoplelikemeitdoesn’tmatterwhetherwehaveademocraticgovernmentoranon-democratic government 1.7. With which of the following statements do you agree most? (New Democracies Barometer) • Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government • Under some circumstances, an authoritarian government can be preferable to a democratic one • Forpeoplelikeme,itdoesnotmatterwhetherwehaveademocraticoranon-democraticregime 1.8. Which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion? (Pew Global Attitudes) • Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government • Under some circumstances, an authoritarian government can be preferable to a democratic one • For someone like me, it does not matter what kind of government we have 1.9. Which one of the following three statements do you agree with most? (South Asian Barometer) • Democracy is preferable to any other kind of government • In certain situations, a dictatorial government can be preferable to a democratic one • It doesn’t matter to people like me whether we have democratic or non-democratic governance
  2. “Churchill” items 2.1. Democracy may have its problems, but it is better than any other form of government. To what extent do you agree or disagree? (ArabBarometer) 2.2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Democracy may have its problems, but it is still the best form of government (AsianBarometer). 2.3. Please tell me how strongly you agree or disagree with the following statement: Democracy may have problems but it’s better than any other form of government (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems) 2.4. Democracy may have its problems, but it is better than any other form of government. To what extent do you agree or disagree? (European Values Survey) 2.5. Withwhichofthefollowingphrasesdoyoumostagree:ingeneral,despiteitsproblems,democracy is the best form of government, there are other forms of government that can be just as good or even better than democracy, don’t know (Latin American Public Opinion Project) Note: I have a note-to-self that this is inaccurate 2.6. Do you strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree with the following statements: Democ- racy may have problems but it is the best system of government (LatinoBarometer) 2.7. Democracy may have its problems, but it is better than any other form of government. To what extent do you agree or disagree? (World Values Survey)
  3. Strong leader items 3.1. There are many ways to govern a country. Would you disapprove or approve of the following alternatives? Elections and Parliament are abolished so that the president can decide everything. (AfroBarometer) 3.2. I will describe different political systems to you, and I want to ask you about your opinion of each one of them with regard to the countrys governance for each one would you say it is very good, good, bad, or very bad? (ArabBarometer) 3.3. I will describe different political systems to you, and I want to ask you about your opinion of each one of them with regard to the countrys governance for each one would you say it is very good, good, bad, or very bad? (ArabBarometer) 3.4. I’m going to describe various types of political systems. Please indicate for each system whether you think it would be very good, fairly good or bad for this country. Governance by a powerful leader without the restriction of parliament or elections (AsiaBarometer) 3.5. Best to get rid of Parliament and elections and have a strong leader who can quickly decide every- thing. What do you think? (AsianBarometer) 3.6. I’mgoingtodescribevarioustypesofpoliticalsystemsandaskwhatyouthinkabouteachasaway of governing this country. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad or very bad way of governing this country? Having a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament and elections (European Values Survey) 3.7. On some occasions, democracy doesn’t work. When that happens there are people that say we need a strong leader who doesn’t have to be elected through voting. Others say that even if things don’t function, democracy is always the best. What do you think? (Latin American Public Opinion Project) 3.8. There are people who say that we need a strong leader that does not have to be elected. Others say that although things may not work, electoral democracy, or the popular vote, is always best. What do you think? (Latin American Public Opinion Project) 3.9. Best to get rid of Parliament and elections and have a strong leader who can quickly decide every- thing. What do you think? (New Democracies Barometer) 3.10. Somefeelthatweshouldrelyonademocraticformofgovernmenttosolveourcountry’sproblems. Others feel that we should rely on a leader with a strong hand to solve our country’s problems. Which comes closer to your opinion? (Pew Global Attitudes) 3.11. There are different ways in which a country may be governed. I will read out some suggestions. For each of these would you say that you strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree? We should have a strong leader who does not have to bother about elections (South Asian Barometer) 3.12. I’mgoingtodescribevarioustypesofpoliticalsystemsandaskwhatyouthinkabouteachasaway of governing this country. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad or very bad way of governing this country? Having a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament and elections (World Values Survey)
  4. Military rule items 4.1. There are many ways to govern a country. Would you disapprove or approve of the following alternatives? The army comes in to govern the country (AfroBarometer) 4.2. I’m going to describe various types of political systems. Please indicate for each system whether you think it would be very good, fairly good or bad for this country – Military government (Asi- aBarometer) 4.3. The army should govern the country. What do you think? (AsianBarometer) 4.4. I’mgoingtodescribevarioustypesofpoliticalsystemsandaskwhatyouthinkabouteachasaway of governing this country. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad or very bad way of governing this country? Having the army rule (European Values Survey) 4.5. The army should govern the country. What do you think? (New Democracies Barometer) 4.6. I’mgoingtodescribevarioustypesofpoliticalsystemsandaskwhatyouthinkabouteachasaway of governing our country. For each one, would it be a very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad or very bad way of governing this country? The military rules the country (Pew Global Attitudes) 4.7. There are different ways in which a country may be governed. I will read out some suggestions. For each of these would you say that you strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree? The country should be governed by the Army (South Asian Barometer) 4.8. I’mgoingtodescribevarioustypesofpoliticalsystemsandaskwhatyouthinkabouteachasaway of governing this country. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad or very bad way of governing this country? Having the army rule (World Values Survey)
  5. One party rule items 5.1. There are many ways to govern a country. Would you disapprove or approve of the following alter- natives? Only one political party is allowed to stand for election and hold office (AfroBarometer) 5.2. There are many ways to govern a country. Would you disapprove or approve of the following alter- natives? Only one political party is allowed to stand for election and hold office (AsianBarometer)
  6. Evaluate democracy items 6.1. I will describe different political systems to you, and I want to ask you about your opinion of each one of them with regard to the country’s governance – for each one would you say it is very good, good, bad, or very bad? A democratic political system (public freedoms, guarantees equality in political and civil rights, alternation of power, and accountability and transparency of the executive authority). (ArabBarometer) 6.2. I’m going to describe various types of political systems. Please indicate for each system whether you think it would be very good, fairly good or bad for this country – A democratic political system (AsiaBarometer) 6.3. I’mgoingtodescribevarioustypesofpoliticalsystemsandaskwhatyouthinkabouteachasaway of governing this country. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad or very bad way of governing this country? Having a democratic political system (European Values Survey) 6.4. I’mgoingtodescribevarioustypesofpoliticalsystemsandaskwhatyouthinkabouteachasaway of governing our country. For each one, would it be a very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad or very bad way of governing this country? A democratic system where representatives elected by citizens decide what becomes law (Pew Global Attitudes) 6.5. I’mgoingtodescribevarioustypesofpoliticalsystemsandaskwhatyouthinkabouteachasaway of governing this country. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad or very bad way of governing this country? Having a democratic political system (World Values Survey)
  7. Elections items 7.1. There are different ways in which a country may be governed. I will read out some suggestions. For each of these would you say that you strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree? The country should be governed by those chosen by the people in a fair election (South Asian Barometer)
  8. Suitability items 8.1. Suppose there was a scale from 0-10 measuring the extent to which democracy is suitable for your country, with 0 meaning that democracy is absolutely inappropriate for your country and 10 meaning that democracy is completely appropriate for your country. To what extent do you think democracy is appropriate for your country? (ArabBarometer) 8.2. Here is a similar scale of 1 to 10 measuring the extent to which people think democracy is suitable for our country. If 1 means that democracy is completely unsuitable for [name of country] today and 10 means that it is completely suitable, where would you place our country today? (AsianBarome- ter) 8.3. Howsuitableisdemocracyforourcountry-verysuitable,suitable,notsuitableornotatallsuitable? (South Asian Barometer)
  9. Importance items 9.1. How important for you to live in democratically governed country? (European Social Survey) 9.2. How important is it to you to live in a country where honest elections are held regularly with a choice of at least two political parties? Is it very important, somewhat important, not too important or not important at all? (Pew Global Attitudes) 9.3. How important is it for you to live in a country that is governed democratically? On this scale where 1 means it is “not at all important” and 10 means “absolutely important” what position would you choose? (World Values Survey)
  10. Desire for democracy items 10.1. To what extent do you want our country to be democratic now? (AsianBarometer)
byngdeuk commented 2 years ago

Dear Fred,

I update the spreadsheet "https://github.com/fsolt/dcpo_demsupport_data/blob/main/data/demsupport_items.csv". There are somethings that should be discussed :).

Related to "values" 1. Row 32-37 (kobar1997-2010) The values now "c(4:1)". Question is "better to get rid of parliament and elections and have a strong leader decide everything" Answers are "1 strongly agree / 2 somewhat agree / 3 somewhat disagree / 4 strongly disagree" So the values should be changed to "c(1:4)"?

2. Row 213 (kobar1994) The values now "c(5:1)" Question is "it would be better to have a strong leader like President Parh Chung Hee govern than to continue a democracy in order to tackle the difficult problems facing our country" Answers are "1 competely agree / 2 very much agree / 3 somewhat agree / 4 do not agree much / 5 do not agree at all" So the values should be changed to "c(1:5)"?

3. Row 277-282 (kobar1997-kobar2010) The values now "c(4:1)" Question is "The army (military) should come in to govern the country" Answers are "1 strongly approave / 2 approve / 3 disapprove / 4 strongly disapprove" So the values should be changed to "c(1:4)"?

4. Row 435 (afrob1) The values now "c(3:1)" Quesiton is "which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion" Answers are "1 democracy is preferable to any other kind of government / 2 in some circumstances a non-democratic government can be preferable / 3 for someone like me it doesn't matter what kind of government we have" So the values should be changed to "c(2,3,1)"?

5. Row 436-441 (afrob2-afrob7) The values now "c(2,1,3)" Question is "which of these three statements is closest to your own opinion" Answers are "1 democracy is preferable to any other kind of government / 2 in some circumstances a non-democratic government can be preferable / 3 for someone like me it doesn't matter what kind of government we have" So the values should be changed to "c(2,3,1)"?

Related to "question_text" If you don't mind, could you share the questionnaires for "asianb5_individual countries", "sasianb1", "asianb1", "eurasiab2001", and "eurasiab2010"?

Exept those questions, all other things are good :).

Please let me know if there is anything that I can do for this project!

fsolt commented 2 years ago

Thanks, Byung-Deuk! I agree with all of the changes you suggest. Thanks for catching these problems! I'll email you the codebooks you listed here shortly.

byngdeuk commented 2 years ago

The changes are reflected at "https://github.com/fsolt/dcpo_demsupport_data/blob/main/data/demsupport_items.csv"! Thanks for your response :)!!

byngdeuk commented 2 years ago

All Done :)!