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| Norwegian National Election Study | |
|---|---|
| Name | Norwegian National Election Study |
| Abbreviation | NNES |
| Established | 1961 |
| Country | Norway |
| Type | Academic survey |
| Discipline | Political science |
| Hosted by | University of Oslo |
Norwegian National Election Study The Norwegian National Election Study is a long-running survey program examining voter behavior, party choice, and political attitudes in Norway across parliamentary and local elections. It is coordinated by institutions such as the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Social Science Data Services, and research groups linked to the Norwegian Institute for Social Research and the University of Bergen. The study informs scholarship on electoral systems, representation, and public opinion relevant to actors like the Labour Party (Norway), the Conservative Party (Norway), and the Progress Party (Norway).
The study collects individual-level data on voting, partisan identification, policy preferences, and socio-demographic variables for each national election since the early 1960s, aligning with comparative efforts such as the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and the European Social Survey. Prominent topics include voters’ attitudes toward institutions like the Storting and the Kingdom of Norway, perceptions of leaders including Gro Harlem Brundtland and Jens Stoltenberg, and evaluations of events such as the EU membership referendums in Norway and debates over the Nordic model. Major related datasets are used alongside sources like the International Social Survey Programme and the World Values Survey.
The program traces roots to postwar empirical projects in Scandinavian political science involving scholars from the University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics. Early waves paralleled work by researchers associated with the Scandinavian Political Studies journal and drew on methods refined in projects led by figures linked to the American National Election Studies and the British Election Study. Institutional partners over time have included the Norwegian Institute of Public Health for sampling frames, the Statistics Norway for demographic linkages, and publishing collaboration with the Scandinavian Journal of Political Research. The dataset expanded to cover local elections, referendums, and longitudinal panels during periods associated with governments such as the Third Cabinet Brundtland and the Centrist government of Kjell Magne Bondevik.
Sampling procedures rely on registers maintained by Statistics Norway with stratification by constituencies used in elections to the Storting. Questionnaire design has been influenced by instruments used in the International Social Survey Programme and methodological standards from the European Consortium for Political Research. Modes include face-to-face interviews, telephone surveys, and web panels following transitions observed in surveys used by the Pew Research Center. Weighting and nonresponse correction adopt approaches comparable to those in studies by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services and technical guidance from the Royal Statistical Society-affiliated methodologists. The coding of party choices maps to party lists such as the Centre Party (Norway), the Christian Democratic Party (Norway), and the Socialist Left Party (Norway).
Analyses using the surveys have produced findings on class-based voting trends akin to discussions in works referencing the Cleavage theory tradition, electoral volatility debates echoing studies of European Parliament elections, and the personalization of politics associated with leaders like Kåre Willoch and Erna Solberg. Seminal articles have appeared in journals including the Scandinavian Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and the Journal of Politics, while books drawing on the data have been published by scholars affiliated with the University of Bergen and the Norwegian Institute for Social Research. Topics covered include coalition formation as seen in analyses of the Bondevik cabinet transitions, welfare state attitudes during reforms linked to the Kok commission era, and immigration politics amid events involving the Schengen Agreement.
Microdata and codebooks are archived with the Norwegian Social Science Data Services and distributed to researchers under conditions similar to other national election studies like the American National Election Studies. Registration and data access procedures follow standards from the European Data Protection Board and institutional review processes of the University of Oslo ethics committees. Researchers have linked NNES data to administrative registers from Statistics Norway to study turnout patterns, geographic variation across counties such as Oslo and Hordaland, and longitudinal changes spanning administrations from Per Borten to Jonas Gahr Støre.
Findings have informed political actors and public debate involving media outlets like Aftenposten and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as party strategists in the Labour Party (Norway) and the Conservative Party (Norway). Research based on the surveys has influenced policy discussions in areas overseen by ministries such as the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (Norway) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Norway), and has been cited in parliamentary committee work in the Storting on electoral reform and representation. Comparative scholarship using the data has situated Norway within broader studies involving the Nordic model and institutions like the European Union.
Category:Political science Category:Public opinion research Category:Norwegian politics