Université de Fribourg

On the use of interview data for the microsimulation of ideological conflicts : an analysis of the political cleavages of the European left

Müller, Georg P.

(Working Papers SES ; 471)

There is an increasing number of interview projects like the European Values Study (EVS) or the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), which collect in many different countries internationally comparative interview data. Some of them even offer time series, which go back to the 1980ies. Unfortunately, these public datasets are generally not suitable for the analysis of political conflicts...