The European Voters Study 1989

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES The European Voters Study (EVS) 1989 is a study of behavior, motivations, attitudes and perceptions of the electorates of the member states of the European Community in the European Parliament Election of 1989— the third of its kind after 1979 and 1984. The objectives for designing and conducting a European Voters Study are twofold. First, a European Voters Study can be mainly looked at from the perspective of studying European elections and their place in the process of European integration. Second, more generally, it can be viewed from the perspective of comparative electoral