Critical Factors - Political

The following is a list of critical political factors. Please rate their importance using the following 1-5 scale, where ‘1’ corresponds to ‘very high’ and ‘5’ to ‘very low’. Use ‘9’ if you do not know or have no opinion.
  • Degree of polarisation of political attitudes
  • Role of political parties
  • Role of political elites and their relation to citizens
  • Scope of issue-based politics

Importance of critical political factors (%)
Polarisation political attitudes Political parties Political elites Issue-based politics
  Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 1 Wave 2
very high

1

21,3 16,7 6,9 0,0 20,8 8,9 15,6 7,7
2 38,7 44,4 27,7 19,6 45,3 55,4 44,2 67,3
3 23,9 29,6 40,3 67,9 22,6 32,1 32,7 17,3
4 13,5 9,3 21,4 10,7 7,5 1,8 5,4 7,7
very low

5

2,6 0,0 3,8 1,8 3,8 1,8 2,0 0,0
Total valid

N

155 54 159 56 159 56 147 52


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