Portuguese Social and Political Attitudes: An Infrastructure
Project Title:
Portuguese Social and Political Attitudes: An Infrastructure
Start and End of Project
2013 until 2016
Chief Investigator:
Jorge Manuel Vala Salvador (ICS-UL)
Project Reference:
RECI/IVC-SOC/0476/2012
Research Team:
| Researcher Name | Institutional Afiliation |
| Anália Torres | CAPP/ISCSP |
| Pedro Magalhães | ICS-UL |
| Marina Lobo | ICS-UL |
| João Ferreira de Almeida | CIES |
Partners:
| Country | Entity |
| Portugal | Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas |
| Portugal | Instituto de Ciências Sociais |
| Portugal | Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
Summary:
The IASPP is a research infrastructure funded by Science and Technology Fundation (FCT - Ref:RECI/IVC-SOC//0476/2012) focused on social and political attitudes in Portugal, in a comparative perspective from surveys applied to statistic samples. Having a recognized value based projects, such as the European Social Survey (ESS) or the Portuguese Election Studies (PES), the IASPP includes the research programs of the Portuguese Social Attitudes (ASP).
Resorting to and interdisciplinary approach ( counting, for example, with sociologists, political scientists and social psychologists) and a consolidated institutional collaboration between ICS-UL, ISCTE-IUL, ISCSP-Ul and international partners, the IASPP aims to: allow the Portuguese social sciences community to draw and interpret stability and change in the European Social Attitudes; increase the accuracy of comparative research; create national development indicators, taking into account the perceptions and judgements about key social aspects; Train researchers into quantitative methods; increase data visibility on social change among academics, policy makers and the general public.