Published July 10, 2024 | Version V1
Dataset Embargoed

Socio-political attitudes in Spain (2023)

Creators

  • 1. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
  • 2. ROR icon London School of Economics and Political Science
  • 3. ROR icon King's College London
  • 4. ROR icon University of York
  • 5. Universidad Diego Portales Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales
  • 6. ROR icon Autonomous University of Madrid
  • 7. ROR icon University of Liverpool

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon National University of Distance Education
  • 2. ROR icon University of York
  • 3. ROR icon King's College London
  • 4. ROR icon Autonomous University of Madrid
  • 5. Universidad Diego Portales Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales
  • 6. ROR icon University of Liverpool

Description

This dataset captures the responses of over 1500 participants in Spain to an original online survey.

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, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and University of Liverpool.

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 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)
  • Authoritarian personality indexes (Hibbing 2020)
  • Conspiracy theories (3 items)
  • Nationalism (5 items)
  • Nativism (Young et al. 2019)
  • Affective polarisation
  • Support for political party (past vote and vote intention)
  • Left-right ideological self-placement
  • Other socio-political questions.

Fieldwork was conducted by YouGov Spain in February 2023. This surveys was part of the following 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).

The uploaded files contain:

  • Detail of survey results (.sav)
  • Questionnaire (.doc)
  • Summary of results (.xls)
  • Fieldwork summary file (.pdf)

Files

Embargoed

The files will be made publicly available on February 28, 2025.

Reason: Under analysis

Additional details

Additional titles

Subtitle (English)
A dataset based on an original survey (N=1500+) conducted by YouGov

Funding

Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento PID2020-113182RA-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Programa Atracción de Talento Investigador 2022-5A_SOC-24238
Comunidad de Madrid

Dates

Collected
2023-02
Fieldwork date
Available
2025-02
End of embargo

References

  • Olivas Osuna, J.J. (2021). From chasing populists to deconstructing populism: A new multidimensional approach to understanding and comparing populism. European Journal of Political Research, 60(4): 829-853
  • Akkerman, A., Mudde, C., & Zaslove, A. (2014). How populist are the people? Measuring populist attitudes in voters. Comparative political studies, 47(9), 1324-1353.
  • Zanotti, L., & Rama, J. (2021). Support for liberal democracy and populist attitudes: A pilot survey for young educated citizens. Political Studies Review, 19(3), 511-519.
  • Young, C., Ziemer, K., & Jackson, C. (2019). Explaining Trump's popular support: Validation of a nativism index. Social Science Quarterly, 100(2), 412-418.
  • Hibbing, J. R. (2020). The securitarian personality: What really motivates Trump's base and why it matters for the post-Trump era. Oxford University Press.
  • Feldman, S., & Stenner, K. (1997). Perceived threat and authoritarianism. Political psychology, 18(4), 741-770.
  • Olivas Osuna, J. J., Bélanger, J. and Clari, E. (2024). Populist Attitudes and Radical Activism in the USA. In K. Jane Patterson and E. Hidalgo-Tenorio (eds) Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Discourses of Extremism. Routledge. 32-53.
  • Olivas Osuna, J. J., Ramiro, L., Vasilopoulou, S., Halikiopoulou, D., Zanotti, L., Santana, A., Rama, J., Clari, E., & Gómez, R. (2024). Socio-political attitudes in France (2023) (Version V1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12706958