The Human Component of Democratization and Global Change: Developing Cross-Level Data Base

这个项目将发展一个跨国数据库，使社会科学家能够分析大众价值观和态度在维持民主体制和支持环境保护政策方面所起的作用。它汇集了来自40多个社会的民意调查数据，这些社会占世界人口的70%，涵盖了各种差异，从人均收入低至每年300美元的社会到人均收入高100倍的社会；从历史悠久的民主国家到新近兴起的民主国家和威权国家。它还将把这些关于大众态度的数据与社会层面的社会和经济指标（如收入水平、识字率和有无民主机构）结合起来。这个独特的数据库将使分析群众态度对稳定的民主的影响成为可能；或者在经济发展和各自公众的世界观之间。由于这些调查中的关键问题是在多年的时间里反复提出的，因此这些数据也将使分析一段时间内的趋势成为可能。

This project will develop a cross-national data base that will enable social scientists to analyze the role that mass values and attitudes play in sustaining democratic institutions, and in providing support for environmental protection policies. It brings together public opinion survey data from more than 40 societies representing 70 percent of the world's population and covering the full range of variation, from societies with per capita incomes as low as $300 per year, to societies with incomes one hundred times that high; and from long-established democracies to recently emerging democracies and authoritarian states. It will also integrate these data on mass attitudes, with societal level social and economic indicators such as income levels, literacy rates, and presence or absence of democratic institutions. This unique data base will make it possible to analyze the impact of mass attitudes on stable democracy; or between economic development and worldviews of the respective publics. Because key questions in these surveys have been asked repeatedly over a period of many years, these data will also make it possible to analyze trends over time.