Data sets to which I contributed:

 

 

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. This is a collaborative program of cross-national research among election study teams in over fifty states. This design allows researchers to conduct cross-level, as well as cross-national, analyses addressing the effects of electoral institutions on citizens' attitudes and behavior, the presence and nature of social and political cleavages, and the evaluation of democratic institutions across different political regimes. Click on the title above to access the CSES website where you find out everything about this project and can also download from there the latest version of the rather complex data-set that was awarded the best political science data set prize in the Comparative Section by the American Political Science Association in August 2000 (but kept expanding and improving ever since).

 

The 2004 European Parliamentary Election Study. 

 

Tarki 1990 Hungarian Post-Election Study. This survey was carried out in May 1990, a few weeks after the second round of the 1990 Hungarian parliamentary election. The sample was based on a subset of 3000 respondents interviewed in Spring 1988 for a survey titled Tarki-A, and therefore by 1990 all respondents were at least 20 years of age. The 1990 data are available from the Hungarian data archive TARKI (study no. C37) and also from the German social science data archive called Zentralarchiv (as study no. 2486).  Click here for the GESIS-website where a PDF-format codebook and further information are available online. The data file archived in the Zentralarchiv includes some socioeconomic variables from the 1988 data; the file archived in TARKI does not. However, the entire 1988 data set, titled TARKI A, are available from TARKI, and the cases can be matched using the study identity number.

 

CEU Hungarian Pre-Election Studies, 1992-1994. This is a three-wave longitudinal survey carried out between September 1992 and March 1994 as part of the "Party Systems and Voter Alignments in East Central Europe" study (see below). In combination with the 1994 CEU post-election study (see below) each of three waves forms a separate panel study. The data are publicly available from the Zentralarchiv (ZA study no. 3056), the Hungarian and the Slovenian social science data archives (for links see above). Click here for the GESIS-website where a PDF-format codebook and further information are available online.

 

CEU 1994 Hungarian Post-Election Study. This survey was carried out between the two rounds of the 1994 Hungarian parliamentary election, and forms a panel study in combination with the 1992-94 pre-election studies (see above). The data are publicly available from the Zentralarchiv (ZA study number 3057), the Hungarian and the Slovenian social science data archives (for links see above).  Click here for the GESIS-website where a PDF-format codebook and further information are available online.

 

Party Systems and Voter Alignments in East Central Europe. This was a cross-nationally comparative and longitudinal study of party images (perceived issue competence), political attitudes and voting behavior carried out between 1992 and 1996 in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. This survey was part of a four-country longitudinal study carried out in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The CEU "core module" was included in all surveys in the series. It covered the salience rating of various policy goals; which parties the respondent believed to be the most and the least likely to pursue that goal; political involvement (interest and discussion): political efficacy and trust; egocentric evaluation of socioeconomic conditions; participation and vote in last election; probability of participation and party choice if there were an election next weekend; respondents' overall evaluation of each main parties; knowledge of the partisan composition of the incumbent government; satisfaction with government and with the functioning of democracy; and - from August 1993 on - the Central and Eastern Eurobarometer items on the state of personal finances and of the national economy in last and next year. The CEU "long module" included all items of the "core module" plus a few agree-disagree attitude scales covering socioeconomic left vs. right, religious vs. secular, nationalist vs. cosmopolitan issues, and left-right and liberal-conservative self-placement. You can obtain parts or all of these data at no cost, but for academic purposes only. Click here for more information on these data sets and how to obtain them. 

 

Hungarian 1990 Parliamentary Election Results. There are two data files available from the Zentralarchiv as study No. 2487 and 2488: party list votes and turnout at the municipality level and votes cast in the single-member districts - first and second round - on the constituency level. Click here for the GESIS-website where PDF-format codebooks and further information are available online about these files.

 

Dismantling of the Social Safety Net and Its Political Consequences in East Central Europe. This was a one-off cross-national study dealing with the experience of and attitudes towards the ongoing socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe as well as voting behavior and general political attitudes.  Identical questionnaires were simultaneously administered to Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak national samples in October 1991, including several economic policy attitude items from the Role of Government module of the ISSP; and several questions that were later replicated in the CEU post-election surveys in 1993-96. The data are available from the Hungarian data archive Tarki as study no. C47. Note that the study title in the TARKI and CESSDA catalogues is TARKI - INTER.

 

TARKI "Mobility" and "Inequality" Surveys 1992. The first wave of this study was a Hungarian social mobility survey yielding 778 individual level variables, mostly on the social status, cultural and material consumption of the respondents and their siblings, both currently and in their childhood. The additional political items included the sympathy ratings of 8 parties, participation and vote in the 1990 election, probability of participating and party preference if there were an election next weekend, attitudes towards social inequalities and government intervention in the economy, subjective social class, and materialist-postmaterialist value orientations were covered. The data are available from the Hungarian data archive TARKI (study no. C80). Some of the respondents were reinterviewed a few months later for, also about their party preference, for the Tarki "Inequality" survey. The data from that survey is available from the Hungarian data archive Tarki as study no. C89.

 

Hungarian Household Panel. This study interviewed all 16+ year old members of over a thousand Hungarian household every year between 1992 and 1999. The income position, employment, and housing situation of households were covered through several hundred variables, but partially with the support of an OTKA-project of mine sympathy ratings of the six main political parties, vote in the 1990 election and current party preference were also asked in the 1992 wave.  Vote in the last election was again asked in a few more waves and current party preference in all but one later wave. Additional political attitude items were included occasionally. The data are available from the Hungarian data archive Tarki (study nos. C81, C82, C83, D08, etc.)

 

Indicators of Local Democratic Governance in Central and Eastern Europe. This is a project of the Tocqueville Research Center that I helped to found in 2000. The project generates large amounts of cross-national municipality-level data about the state of local democracy in Eastern and Central Europe, mainly through large-N surveys with chief administrative officials and municipal councilors. The first wave of surveys took place in Latvia, Hungary, Poland and Romania in February and March 2001, but the data collection has been extended to other countries since. Click on the project's name above for extensive online information about the studies as well as on public access to the data sets.

 

Various 2003-2006 surveys in Hungary regarding voting behaviour and attitudes towards EU-membership.  

 

 

 

Other data sets that may be worthy of your attention:

Election results in Central and Eastern Europe. As far as I can tell this is the most comprehensive and accurate information source on the topic, and also features a good collection of election laws and other relevant legislation in the countries concerned.

The CESSDA Integrated Data Catalogue of the European Social Science Data Banks. Here is another link to the same source.