Populist and other socio-political attitudes in Italy, Greece and Spain (2022)

This dataset captures the responses of over 3000 participants in Italy, Greece and Spain to an original online survey that was conducted by Qualtrics Research. This online survey was designed by a group of experts in populism from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Madrid), King's College London, Univerity of York, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). The survey contains over a hundred items: Socio-demographic items: education, age, religion, gender, employment Populism items: including Akkerman et al.'s 2014 scale of populist attitudes, and a new items corresponding to a new multi-dimensional scale of populist attitudes (Olivas Osuna 2021; Olivas Osuna 2024; Olivas Osuna et al. forthcoming) (32 items) Items related to trust on institutions and media (9 items) Items related to satisfaction with the functioning of democracy, services and institutions (7 items) Authoritarian values (Feldman and Stenner 1997) Liberal democratic values (Zanotti and Rama 2021) Conspiracy theories (3 items) Borders and immigration (4 items) Nationalism (5 items) Nativism (Young et al. 2019) Support for political party (party affinity, vote recall and vote intention) Affective polarisation Left-right ideological self-placement Other socio-political questions. Fieldwork was conducted by Qualtric Research between 23 March and 5 April 2022. Previously Qualtrics Research carried out a pilot test on 16 and 17 March 2022. The surveys was part of the projects: Populism and Borders: a Supply- and Demand-Side Comparative Analysis of Discourses and Attitudes (PBSDCA) and Principal Investigator Interdisciplinary Comparative Project on Populism and Secessionism (ICPPS). Detail of survey results combined and per country (.sav) Questionnaires in Greek, Italian and Spanish (.doc) Draft version of the questionnaire in English (.pdf) Codebook (.xls) Summary of ESOMAR methodology applied by Qualtrics Research file (.pdf) For further information about the survey and data please contact José Javier Olivas Osuna.