The dataset was produced by the DEMOTEC Horizon project funded by the EU (H2020 GA no.962553). The main purpose of the project was the study of Participatory Budgeting (PB) and other democratic innovations at the local level of governance.

The dataset consists of citizen responses obtained from an online panel from 10 European countries (Germany, France, Spain, the UK, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania), with roughly 3,000 respondents from each country, except Cyprus (~500 respondents).

Responses to a total of 108 questions are included in the dataset; the main variables of interest concerned awareness of, past participation in and future intent to participate in 4 different forms of democratic innovations: PB, referendums, citizen juries and citizen assemblies. A number of other covariates are present in the dataset from demographics, variables relating to national level politics, attitudes toward local authorities etc.

More methodological details are provided in the attached codebook.