Swiss Voting Study, 1972

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Label

Swiss Voting Study, 1972

Creator

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

Contributor

• Schmidtchen, Gerhard
• Sidjanski, Dusan

Author

• Sidjanski, Dusan
• Kerr, Henry
• Schmidtchen, Gerhard

Contributor

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

Subject

• political affiliation
• political attitudes
• political parties
• public opinion
• referendum
• social conflict
• survey
• voting behavior
• voting rights
• womens rights
• Party affiliation
• Suffrage
• Switzerland
• citizen attitudes
• foreign workers
• national elections

Genre

• survey

Summary

This study was conducted from February through June 1972, following the 1971 federal election in Switzerland. Questions probed respondents' attitudes toward elections and political parties as well as their political preferences. Other items assessed opinions on contemporary issues such as the organization of referenda, women's right to vote, and the Schwarzenbach initiative (a parliamentary action of conservative extremists, demanding that one-third of Switzerland's foreign workers be forced to leave the country and that aliens compose no more than 10 percent of the population in any canton). Demographic data include age, sex, education, ethnic background, and family background