CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Popp, Livia-Angela |
|---|---|
| Title | Nonresponse to Politically-Sensitive Questions Across Political Regimes |
| Summary | The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between political regimes and unit nonresponse, "don't know" item nonresponse and "no answer" item nonresponse, seeking to use willingness to answer politically-sensitive questions as a proxy to measure the quality of democracy. Using data from World Values Survey's sixth wave to measure nonresponse, as well as data from Freedom House, V-Dem, Polity IV and The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index to measure democratization, I conducted correlations and multiple linear regressions in order to see the relationship between political regimes as my independent variable and types and amounts of nonresponse. The results of the analysis is that contrary to what the literature suggested, namely that nonresponse will be either most spread across democratic regimes due to oversaturation, or across non-democratic regimes due to preference skewing. The highest levels of nonresponse were found in flawed democracies, yet the results of the analysis should be accepted with caution, as regime type did prove to not have much explanatory power over the distribution and type of nonresponse recorded. |
| Supervisor | Littvay Levente |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/popp_livia.pdf |
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