Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2008

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Label

Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2008

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Kennedy, Craig

Contributor

• Isernia, Pierangelo
• Glenn, John
• Everts, Philip
• Eichenberg, Richard
• La Balme, Natalie

Author

• Kennedy, Craig
• Eichenberg, Richard
• Everts, Philip
• Glenn, John
• Isernia, Pierangelo
• La Balme, Natalie

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• Presidents -- Election
• democracy
• energy production
• government expenditures
• government performance
• international relations
• leadership
• military intervention
• military preparedness
• national interests
• national politics
• national security
• nations
• political affiliation
• political attitudes
• political issues
• political opinions
• presidency
• presidential candidates
• presidential elections
• public opinion
• social attitudes
• social issues
• survey
• European Union
• threats
• travel
• voter attitudes
• voting behavior
• weapons
• terrorist threats
• European unification
• Expenditures, Public
• Intervention (International law)
• Middle East
• NATO
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Party affiliation
• Presidents

Genre

• survey

Summary

The aim of this study was to identify the attitudes of the public in the United States and in 12 European countries towards foreign policy issues and transatlantic issues. The survey concentrated on issues such as: United States and European Union (EU) leadership and relations, favorability towards certain countries, institutions and people, security, cooperation and the perception of threat including issues of concern with Afghanistan, Iran, and Russia, energy dependence, economic downturn, and global warming, Turkey and Turkish accession to the EU, promotion of democracy in other countries, and the importance of economic versus military power. Several questions asked of respondents pertained to voting and politics including whether they discussed political matters with friends and whether they attempted to persuade others close to them to share their views on politics which they held strong opinions about, vote intention, their assessment of the current United States President and upcoming presidential election, political party attachment, and left-right political self-placement. Demographic and other background information includes age, gender, race, ethnicity, religious affiliation and participation, age when stopped full-time education and stage at which full-time education completed, occupation, number of people aged 18 years and older living in the household, type of locality, region of residence, prior travel to the United States or Europe, and language of interview