Socio-political attitudes in Spain (2023)A dataset based on an original survey (N=1500+) conducted by YouGov

This dataset captures the responses of over 1500 participants in Spain to an original online survey.

This online survey was designed by a group of experts in populism from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Madrid), King's College London, Univerity of York, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and University of Liverpool.

The survey contains over a hundred items:

Socio-demographic items: education, age, religion, gender, employment

Populism items: including Akkerman et al.'s 2014 scale of populist attitudes, and a new items corresponding to a new multi-dimensional scale of populist attitudes (Olivas Osuna 2021; Olivas Osuna et al. forthcoming) (32 items)

Items related to trust on institutions and media (9 items)

Items related to satisfaction with the functioning of democracy, services and institutions (7 items)

Authoritarian values (Feldman and Stenner 1997)

Liberal democratic values (Zanotti and Rama 2021)

Authoritarian personality indexes (Hibbing 2020)

Conspiracy theories (3 items)

Nationalism (5 items)

Nativism (Young et al. 2019)

Affective polarisation

Support for political party (past vote and vote intention)

Left-right ideological self-placement

Other socio-political questions.

Fieldwork was conducted by YouGov Spain in February 2023. This surveys was part of the following projects: Populism and Borders: a Supply- and Demand-Side Comparative Analysis of Discourses and Attitudes (PBSDCA) and Principal Investigator Interdisciplinary Comparative Project on Populism and Secessionism (ICPPS).

The uploaded files contain:

Detail of survey results (.sav)

Questionnaire (.doc)

Summary of results (.xls)

Fieldwork summary file (.pdf)