Arms control in the European political environment
Subtitle: French and German elite responses, 1964
By: principal investigator, Karl W. Deutsch
Series: ICPSR -- 7274; ICPSR (Series) -- 7274
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Public opinion; Arms control; Disarmament; Elite (Social sciences); Attitudes; Politics and government; Foreign relations; Economic integration
Description: This study contains data from 147 French respondents and 173 German respondents collected by personal interviews with selected elite figures during 1964 (June and July in France, and late May to early October in Germany). The sample rested both on reputational and positional characteristics of potential respondents. Self-selection affected the sample - only 203 of the 441 French elites contacted agreed to participate and only 481 of the 650 German contacted agreed to participate. After this elimination, the samples were further reduced by scholarly as well as practical criteria. The researchers' intentions were to gather data bearing on four significant aspects of French and West German politics relevant to the issue of arms control and disarmament in Western Europe. These four areas were domestic policy, foreign policy, European integration, and arms control and disarmament. The data from this questionnaire touched specifically on the respondents' perceptions of the political system and its future, opinions on specific foreign policy issues and their relationship to domestic politics, the two Germanys question, national sovereignty versus international associations, European integration, and various nuclear strategies and arms control arrangements.

Biographical data including standard demographic and personal information as well as data on party, military, and governmental backgrounds, were compiled from records and interviews. Measures of latent attitude structures were assessed by interviewers. The ''Latent Attitude Questionnaire'' tapped such variables as respondents' interest in and emotional reaction to issues, perception of emotional reactions to professional roles and responsibilities, general ability to structure problems, open-mindedness, alienation, and feelings of competence.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class III.

Data collected: May-October 1964.

The data contain amp and dash codes.

320 respondents;, 8 cards of data per respondent; approximately 310 variables.

Deutsch, Karl W., Lewis J. Edinger, and Roy C. Macridis. Study of Elite Attitudes on European Integration and World Politics. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1967.

Deutsch, Karl W. Arms Control and the Atlantic Alliance: Europe Faces Coming Policy Decisions. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1967.