Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Transformation and its aftermath
- 1 Time matters: the dynamics of regime support
- 2 The supply of regimes: democratic and autocratic
- 3 A changing supply of Russian regimes
- 4 Uncertainties of transformation: a view from the bottom
- 5 Changing levels of regime support
- 6 Social structure and the evaluation of regimes
- 7 The influence of political values and performance
- 8 Finding the economic influences that matter
- 9 The impact of the passage of time
- 10 What could challenge the new equilibrium?
- Appendix A New Russia Barometer samples
- Appendix B Coding of variables
- References
- Index
Appendix A - New Russia Barometer samples
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Transformation and its aftermath
- 1 Time matters: the dynamics of regime support
- 2 The supply of regimes: democratic and autocratic
- 3 A changing supply of Russian regimes
- 4 Uncertainties of transformation: a view from the bottom
- 5 Changing levels of regime support
- 6 Social structure and the evaluation of regimes
- 7 The influence of political values and performance
- 8 Finding the economic influences that matter
- 9 The impact of the passage of time
- 10 What could challenge the new equilibrium?
- Appendix A New Russia Barometer samples
- Appendix B Coding of variables
- References
- Index
Summary
Every NRB survey bar one has been conducted by the same organization, initially known as VCIOM, the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research, and then as the Levada Center, the most senior and established not-for-profit survey research institution in Russia. Its leading personnel are social scientists well versed in both the theory and the practice of survey research (see www.levada.ru for details). Continuity in organization and personnel is especially beneficial for the long-term trend analysis reported in this book.
All New Russia Barometer surveys are conducted with multistage stratified samples. The starting point is the division of the population geographically, in order to cover the whole of the Russian Federation except for war zones and difficult-to-reach extremities, areas with a small percentage of the national population. The data used for stratifying the population come from the censuses and official statistics collected by Goskomstat (www.gks.ru). Initially, the country is stratified into seven to ten large economic and geographical regions, and each is assigned a number of interviews proportionate to its share of the national population. All cities with a population of more than 1 million people are selected, and within each region regional centers, towns, and villages are selected with a probability proportionate to their population. Then, cities are stratified by ward and rural areas by villages in order to select Primary Sampling Units; an average of ten interviews is conducted in a sampling unit, thus ensuring a wide dispersion of interviews within big cities such as Moscow.
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- Russia TransformedDeveloping Popular Support for a New Regime, pp. 202 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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