Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP) in nine European Countries, 2009-2012

PIDOP, Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation, was a multinational research project that was funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The project examined the processes which influence democratic ownership and participation in nine European countries - Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Italy, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey. The project drew on the disciplines of Psychology, Politics, Sociology, Social Policy and Education to examine macro-level contextual factors (including historical, political, electoral, economic and policy factors), proximal social factors (including familial, educational and media factors) and psychological factors (including motivational, cognitive, attitudinal and identity factors) which facilitated and/or inhibited civic and political engagement and participation. The project had a distinct focus on the psychology of the individual citizen and the psychological processes through which macro-level contextual factors and proximal social factors exert their effects upon citizens' civic and political engagement and participation. Young people, women, minorities and migrants were examined as four specific groups at risk of political disengagement. The research explored the differences as well as the overlap between civic and political engagement, and both direct and representative participation. The data were collected in three phases: Phase 1 (Focus Groups), Phase 2 (Individual Interviews), and Phase 3 (Quantitative Survey). Qualitative focus group and interview data are not included as part of this data collection at this time. Data included as part of this collection includes one dataset with 8197 cases for 198 variables. Demographic variables include: age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, education-level, occupation, marital status, children, income, and political ideology.

PIDOP（影响民主拥有权和参与的进程）是一项由欧洲委员会第七框架计划资助的多国研究项目。该项目探讨了影响九个欧洲国家——比利时、捷克共和国、英格兰、德国、意大利、北爱尔兰、葡萄牙、瑞典和土耳其的民主拥有权和参与的进程。研究借鉴了心理学、政治学、社会学、社会福利和教育等多个学科，以审视宏观层面的环境因素（包括历史、政治、选举、经济和政策因素），邻近的社会因素（包括家庭、教育和媒体因素）以及心理因素（包括动机、认知、态度和身份因素），这些因素促进了或阻碍了公民和政治参与。项目特别关注个体公民的心理学以及宏观层面的环境因素和邻近的社会因素如何影响公民的公民和政治参与的心理学过程。研究还分析了年轻人、女性、少数族裔和移民这四个特定群体政治脱钩的风险。研究探讨了公民和政治参与之间的差异以及重叠，以及直接和代议制参与的差异。数据收集分为三个阶段：第一阶段（焦点小组）、第二阶段（个别访谈）和第三阶段（定量调查）。目前，定性焦点小组和访谈数据不包括在本数据收集范围内。本收集的数据包括一个包含8197个案例和198个变量的数据集。人口统计变量包括：年龄、性别、种族、国籍、公民身份、教育水平、职业、婚姻状况、子女、收入和政治意识形态。