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Election studies: a research data management challenge Laurence Horton, Alexia Katsanidou International Data Infrastructures GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Data Archive for the Social Sciences IASSIST 2012 38th Annual Conference Washington DC June 7, 2012 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Slide 2 National election studies American National Election Study (ANES); National Annenberg Election Study (NAES) New Zealand Election Study (NZES) Japanese Election Study (JES) The Israel National Election Studies (INES) Canadian Election Study Australian Election Study (AES) Austrian National Election Studies (ANES) Danish Election Study German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) Italian National Election Study (ITANES) Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (DPES) Norwegian Election Studies Swedish National Election Studies (SNES) Swiss Electoral Studies (SELECTS) British Election Study (BES) Slide 3 The International Setting Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) www.cnep.ics.ul.pt www.cnep.ics.ul.pt Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) www.cses.org/ www.cses.org/ European Election Studies (EES) www.europeanelectionstudies.net/ www.europeanelectionstudies.net/ Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU) http://www.piredeu.eu/ http://www.piredeu.eu/ European Voter Project http://www.gesis.org/wahlen/internationale-wahlstudien/the-european-voter/ http://www.gesis.org/wahlen/internationale-wahlstudien/the-european-voter/ COST Action "The True European Voter" http://true-european-voter.eu/ http://true-european-voter.eu/ CERES Consortium for European Research with Election Studies Slide 4 Explaining election results Dewey Defeats Truman by scriptingnews under CC BY-SA 2.0CC BY-SA 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2544447858/; Lisa's Substitute The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season. Writ. Jon Vitti. Dir. Rich Moore. 20th Century Fox, 1991http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2544447858/ Slide 5 A sprint, not a marathon.. Sprit image by Arcimboldo under CC BY 2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Osaka07_D6A_M200M_nearfinish.jpg; marathon image in public domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_1990.jpg.CC BY 2.0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Osaka07_D6A_M200M_nearfinish.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_1990.jpg Intense data generating events. Elections compressed into burst of activity Slide 6 Instability of elections Faoila, Anthony. Greece fails to form new government, calls new elections. Washington Post 15 May 2012: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/greece-fails-to-form-new- government-calls-new-elections/2012/05/15/gIQAB9vsRU_story.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/greece-fails-to-form-new- government-calls-new-elections/2012/05/15/gIQAB9vsRU_story.html Slide 7 The Johnny Cash problem Well, the one on the right was on the left And the one in the middle was on the right And the one on the left was in the middle Right = 1Left = 2Centre = 3 Left = 1Right = 2Centre = 3 Right = 1Centre = 2Left = 3 Left = 1Centre = 2Right = 3 Centre = 1Left = 2Right = 3 Centre = 1Right = 2Left = 3 Clement, J.H. (1966). The One on the Right is on the Left [J. Cash] CBS Records 1966. Slide 8 Data ownership LSE Archive blog, On the campaign trail Out of the Box http://lib-1.lse.ac.uk/archivesblog/?p=2012; Montage of the General Election Day newspapers http://conservativehome.blogs.com/electiongallery/2010/05/montage-of-the-general-election-day-newspapers.html; Lizzy Davis, Franois Hollande v Nicolas Sarkozy: tweets from election day The Guardian, 6 May 2012http://lib-1.lse.ac.uk/archivesblog/?p=2012 http://conservativehome.blogs.com/electiongallery/2010/05/montage-of-the-general-election-day-newspapers.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/french-election-blog-2012/2012/may/06/french-elections-2012-twitterhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/french-election-blog-2012/2012/may/06/french-elections-2012-twitter; campaign broadcast Slide 9 Privacy Photographs: Klaus Ernst by der Linkspartei under public domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst,_Klaus_(1954),_Variante_a.jpg; Cem zdemir by Cosimamz under CC BY-SA 2.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CemOezdemir2010.JPG; Claudia Roth by Bndnis 90/Die Grnen Nordrhein-Westfalen under CC BY-SA- 2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claudia_Roth_2010.jpg; Gesine Ltzsch by Ginniwunni under CC BY 3.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gesine_L%C3%B6tzsch_5Mai2011_a.jpg; Philipp Rsler by Fdp nds under CC BY 3.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roesler-klein.jpg; Sigmar Gabriel by Agncia Brasil under CC BY 3.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sigmar_Gabriel_2008.jpg; Horst Seehofer by J. Patrick Fischer under CC BY-SA 3.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seehofer.JPG; Angela Merkel by Armin Linnartz under CC BY-SA 3.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AM_Juli_2010_-_3zu4.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst,_Klaus_(1954),_Variante_a.jpgCC BY-SA 2.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CemOezdemir2010.JPGCC BY-SA- 2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claudia_Roth_2010.jpgCC BY 3.0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gesine_L%C3%B6tzsch_5Mai2011_a.jpgCC BY 3.0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roesler-klein.jpgCC BY 3.0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sigmar_Gabriel_2008.jpgCC BY-SA 3.0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seehofer.JPGCC BY-SAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AM_Juli_2010_-_3zu4.jpg Slide 10 Integrating legal requirements For comparative election data: Problem of different legal environments. For new types of data collections: What are the rules on that? blog.drivinglessons.com http://blog.drivinglessons.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/800px-Drive-on-the-left-kent-1b.jpghttp://blog.drivinglessons.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/800px-Drive-on-the-left-kent-1b.jpg Slide 11 The Lynyrd Skynyrd problem PIs and research teams change over time. Lynyrd Skynyrd picture by Watt_Dabney licensed under CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/watt_dabney/4411751415/; Lynyrd Skynyrd band members http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lynyrd_Skynyrd_band_membersCC BY 2.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/watt_dabney/4411751415/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lynyrd_Skynyrd_band_members Slide 12 Funding: the Oliver problem More?! Instability regarding funding. Having to repeatedly ask for more leads to uncertainty Lean, David, dir. Oliver Twist. Cineguild, 1948 Film. Slide 13 Solutions What do we want? Usable data comparative across space and time. When do we want it? The day after the election, please. Protest image by laurencehorton under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurencehorton/5160320371/in/set-72157625346145680CC BY-NC-ND 2.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurencehorton/5160320371/in/set-72157625346145680 Slide 14 Planning ahead Build the PI group early on Secure Money flow Do research Pre-harmonization Plan study Components Build Cooperations Slide 15 Institutionalization of election Study groups Slide 16 Harmonization The cost of post- harmonization Eg. TEV Trade-off: Over time or across countries? Slide 17 Common Problems? Common Solutions! Slide 18 Work with your local archive! Slide 19 German Longitudinal Election Study Funded from 2009-2018 Covering state and three federal elections: 2009, 2013, 2017 German Longitudinal Election Study, Overview over the GLES Design at the Bundestag Election 2009 http://www.gles.eu/design.en.htmhttp://www.gles.eu/design.en.htm Slide 20 Thank you Archive Training Center GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 50667 Cologne GERMANY Email: archive.training@gesis.org Twitter: @GesisIDI Website: http://www.gesis.org/archive-and-data-management- training-and-information-centrehttp://www.gesis.org/archive-and-data-management- training-and-information-centre