Thinking Conceptually, Analysing Empirically: The New Europe Barometer
Channel: ESDSInternational
Date: 30/09/2011

A talk by Professor Richard Rose of the University of Aberdeen.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was followed by the treble transformation of the polity, economy and society of Communist systems, and often by changes in state boundaries.  The choice was to ask standard qustions in Western settings or, in a radically different setting, to think conceptually in order to turn anecdotes into data. The point is illustrated with examples of questions and answers with fresh economic, political and social capital measures and analyses treating time as a variable.

This talk was given at the ESDS International 6th Annual Conference held in London in November 2010. Information about the conference and slides from the presentation are available from http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/news/conf2010.asp