Post-election survey data: Local democracy and the 2018 local elections in the Czech Republic

• DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107039
• Publication Date: 2021-04-06T06:05:45Z
• Authors: Pavel Šaradín; Tomáš Lebeda; Jakub Lysek; Michal Soukop; Daniela Ostrá; Eva Lebedová
• Keywords: Cynicism; Local Election; Survey data collection

This article presents unique survey data focused on local democracy, political attitudes and participation. The main aim of the research was to understand relationships between values, participation, knowledge voting behavior at level. held autumn 2018 after elections in Czech Republic. are terms their focus politics combined with variables that standardly examined context national politics. dataset links fields directly related (local electoral behavior, non-electoral trust institutions evaluation policy efficacy) usually connected (political interest, institutions, cynicism, populist knowledge). Research also looks towards democracy as such. provided can be used by scholars field politics, governance behavior. Data comparable other large-scale individual level surveys, or may serve source for meta-analysis.