{"id":1018,"date":"2017-11-25T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dataharmonization.org\/?page_id=1018"},"modified":"2017-11-25T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T19:37:49","slug":"survey-data-harmonization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.asc.ohio-state.edu\/dataharmonization\/related-projects\/survey-data-harmonization\/","title":{"rendered":"NCN Harmonization Project 2013 – 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>The SDR project is a continuation of the\u00a0study Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling<\/i>,\u00a0a joint endeavour of the\u00a0Institute of Philosophy and Sociology<\/a>, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the\u00a0Mershon Center for International Security Studies<\/a>, The Ohio State University, and financed by the Polish\u00a0National Science Centre<\/a>\u00a0(NCN) in the framework of the\u00a0Harmonia grant competition\u00a0(2012\/06\/M\/HS6\/00322) 2013 – 2016. The project was led by Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and J. Craig Jenkins.<\/p>\n

Full project description<\/a><\/p>\n

The data are available at Harvard University’s\u00a0Dataverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

This project (hereafter, Harmonization Project) is driven by closely linked substantive and methodological considerations. Substantively, it engages with the relationship between democracy and protest behavior in comparative, cross-national perspective.\u00a0 Political protest can be of various types, such participation in demonstrations or signing petitions.\u00a0 Regarding democracy, we consider both democratic practice \u2013 usually measured by \u201cdemocratic indexes\u201d characterizing countries \u2013 and democratic values that people hold. The project incorporates relevant literature to develop a theoretical model that explains variation in political protest in light of individual-level characteristics, country-level determinants, and interactions between the two types of factors.<\/p>\n

Testing it calls for data at the individual- and at the country-level that vary over time and across space. The Harmonization Project sets out to create comparable measurements of political protest, social values, and demographics via\u00a0ex-post<\/em>\u00a0harmonization of variables from international survey projects and append them with macro-level variables from external sources, such as the World Bank, OSCE, UN agencies, Transparency International, and others (Data<\/a>). Two types of source variables are selected for harmonization: technical variables, provided by survey administrators, and variables of substantive interest. The list of variables is not closed, thanks to the flexible set-up of the programming environment we are using.<\/p>\n

Besides its contribution to social science knowledge about determinants of peoples\u2019 propensity to engage in political protest, the Harmonization Project is important for the methodology of survey research. It prompts one to reconsider how exiting survey data can best be used, in light of possibilities for standardization and ex-post harmonization, but also with regards to accounting for various methodological problems in the existing surveys.<\/p>\n

Project team<\/strong><\/p>\n

PI: Kazimierz M. S\u0142omczy\u0144ski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), and The Ohio State University (OSU)
\nPI: J. Craig Jenkins, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, OSU
\nPI: Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, IFiS PAN and CONSIRT<\/p>\n

Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, IFiS PAN and CONSIRT
\nMarta Ko\u0142czy\u0144ska, IFiS PAN
\nOlena Oleksiyenko, IFiS PAN
\nPrzemek Powa\u0142ko, IFiS PAN
\nAnastas Vangeli, IFiS PAN
\nIlona Wysmu\u0142ek, IFiS PAN
\nMatthew Schoene, Albion College
\nMarcin Zelinski, IFiS PAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The SDR project is a continuation of the\u00a0study Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling,\u00a0a joint endeavour of the\u00a0Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the\u00a0Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The …<\/p>\n

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