Political and Social Attitudes in the 1995 Russian Election

这是一个在探索性研究小额赠款(SGER)下提交的项目。它的目的是在1995年俄罗斯议会选举之前获得民意数据，当时俄罗斯正处于迅速的社会变革和民主化可能出现的新障碍时期。这项研究将对我们理解重大的社会变化，包括新机构的建立，如何导致与区域、城市/农村以及种族和宗教分裂有关的社会混乱和日益紧张的局势，做出重大的实质性和理论贡献。这是1993年大选前后进行的一项调查的后续调查，使研究人员能够衡量公众不断变化的看法和不满程度。这一分析基于对4000名受访者的全国性调查。这项研究将有助于从社会学角度理解民主化进程及其对不同人口群体的影响。考察公众对迅速的社会变化和表达政治选择的机会的反应，将表明俄罗斯的情况与其他正在向民主过渡的国家的情况相似或不同。除了这项研究的科学成果外，该项目还将鼓励与俄罗斯的研究人员建立科学联系。

This is a project submitted under Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER). It is designed to obtain public opinion data prior to the 1995 Russian legislative election during a period of rapid social change in Russia and the potential emergence of new obstacles to democratization. The research will make significant substantive and theoretical contributions to our understanding of how major social changes, including the creation of new institutions, lead to social dislocations and rising tensions related to regional, urban/rural, and ethnic and religious cleavages. It is a follow-up of a survey conducted around the 1993 election, enabling the researchers to measure changing public perceptions and levels of discontent. Analysis is based on a national survey of 4,000 respondents. %%% This research will contribute to sociological understanding of the process of democratization and its effects on diverse population groups. An examination of public reactions to rapid social changes and to the opportunities for expressing political choices will demonstrate the ways in which the Russian situation is similar or different from that of other countries undergoing a transition to democracy. In addition to the scientific gains from this research, the project will encourage scientific ties with researchers in Russia.