Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS)

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The CSS General Assembly will take place on Tuesday, 8 October 2024, at 10:00 – 13:00 (CET) For more details please see: comparativecandidates.org/node/42

The CCS Steering Committee opens a Call for Questions/Modules to be included in the CCS round IV questionnaire. For more details please see: comparativecandidates.org/node/41

📢New article out:Using data from @CompCandSurvey, I explore age-related electoral disadvantages across time and countries.Main finding: Core resources (💰⏰🕸️)are distributed on an inverted u-shape,favoring middle-aged over young & senior candidates. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The very first release of the Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS) Module III dataset has just been published! This release includes 5 elections in 5 countries For more details please see: comparativecandidates.org/node/40

Just one day left to submit your nomination for the CCS Module 4 Questionnaire Development Committee (QDC). Please find the details of the call at: comparativecandidates.org/node/37

On 7/9 we also had the @CompCandSurvey business meeting with @l_lauener, newcomers and re-activation of old members. I would like to thank @FORSresearch for the delicious finger food provided for the participants of the meeting.

We are very interested in Papers and Panels using @CompCandSurvey @csestweets @ISSP_survey and data from other comparative and national projects in political and social sciences

The list of publications using CCS data has been updated! More than 20 have been published just in one year (2022) and the list keeps growing! Check it out at: comparativecandidates.org/bibliography If you know of other publications that have used CCS data please let us know!

If you are at #ecprgc22 and want to learn about the CCS or if you are interested in joining the project, please join our business meeting on Wednesday, 24 August 2022, at 13:00 - 14:00 in Building: C, Floor: 5, Room: 551&552 See: comparativecandidates.org/node/36

Three new articles added in @CompCandSurvey bibliography in 2022: link.springer.com/article/10.105… doi.org/10.1017/gov.20… doi.org/10.1080/193316… Find all of them at: comparativecandidates.org/bibliography

The fifth release of the CCS II dataset has just been published. It now includes 30 elections in 21 countries, with the following elections recently being added: UK 2015, UK 2017, Norway 2017 and Estonia 2019. Read how you can download it at: comparativecandidates.org/data-access

@CompCandSurvey @Aristoteleio The list of @CompCandSurvey publications includes new articles by @LucaVerzichelli, @SLdeLange, @JochenRehmert, @F_Montemagno, @red_roxana and many others!

We have added new publications that use our #data: comparativecandidates.org/bibliography Also note that we have an updated questionnaire: comparativecandidates.org/documents and that @Aristoteleio has awarded a grant for the coding the data of the open-ended CCS questions: comparativecandidates.org/node/34

🚀Data collection for the GLES Candidate Study started this week 🎊. In addition to numerous other questions, it includes the German survey of the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS) @CompCandSurvey. The German questionnaire is available here: gles.eu/wp-content/upl…

A new book: Politicians in Hard Times has just been added in the @CompCandSurvey Bibliography: comparativecandidates.org/bibliography

New *Optional* Items on Harassment and Intimidation towards political candidates has just been added on our list of Data Collection Documents. Details are available at: comparativecandidates.org/documents

Some GLES surveys are embedded in international survey programs: The Post-Election Cross-Section includes the German survey of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (@csestweets), the Candidate Study is included in the Comparative Candidate Survey (@CompCandSurvey).

'Transnational solidarity among political elites' – new open access publication with the fabulous @AnnReinl. Thanks a lot to @BMBF_Bund and @scriptsberlin (& @dfg_public) for support! @WZB_Berlin @GSI_Muenchen @gesis_org @EPSRjournal @ECPR #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/…