Attitude to current topics of domestic policy. Topics: Satisfaction with democracy; party preference; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; trust in public institutions (scale
Since the early 1970s the European Commission´s Standard & Special Eurobarometer are regularly monitoring the public opinion in the European Union member countries. Principal investigators are the Dir
There are very few examples of countries abolishing, or introducing, compulsory voting in a clear-cut manner. The Netherlands abolished the system in 1971, and Irwin (1974) documented how this led to
