This study consisted of set of questions added to the post-election (November) 1979 regular Eurobarometer (Rabier), linked to a campaign study (Reif), an elite study (Schmitt) and a study of the media in several countries (Blumler).

The mass survey data are available as part of the regular Eurobarometer surveys of Spring and Fall 1979 (EBs 11 and 12), archived at the ESRC Data Archive, University of Essex (EB 11 and EB 12); at the ICPSR, University of Michigan (EB 11 and EB 12); and at the Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung at the University of Cologne, now GESIS-ZA.

The elite survey data ("European Political Parties' Middle Level Elites Project [EPPMLE]") are available from the Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung, now GESIS-ZA.

Principal Investigators

• Jay G. Blumler (then University of Leeds, now Emeritus Professor University of Leeds)
• Karlheinz Reif (then University of Mannheim)
• Hermann Schmitt (University of Mannheim)
• Jean-Jacques Rabier (then European Commission)

Publications resulting in whole or in part from this study

• Publications