Caucasus Research Resource Center – Armenia

A Program of Eurasia Partnership Foundation

Survey on Political Attitudes

CARDS

CRRC Armenia, December 2011

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Question 1

Completely Completely
dissatisfied satisfied
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Question 3

Everything People shape

in life is their fate
determined themselves
by fate
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Question 5

1 Definitely going in the wrong direction

2 Mainly going in the wrong direction

3 Not change at all

4 Mainly going in the right direction

5 Definitely going in the right direction

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Question 7; 8

1. Reform of public governance (e-government)

2. Anticorruption policy
3. Electoral reform
4. Media reform
5. Reform with identification cards (passports)
6. Pension reform
7. Tax reform
8. Education reform
9. Healthcare reform
10. Agricultural reform
11. Judicial reform
12. Business environment reform

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CARD 5
Question 15; 18

Worse Same Better

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Question 16; 19

Not Very
important important
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Question 17; 20

1 Not involved

2 Rather not involved

3 Rather involved

4 Greatly involved

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Question 12

Statement 1:

People are like children; the

government should take care of them
like a parent.
Statement 2:

Government is like an employee; the

people should be the bosses who
control the government.

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Question 35; 37

I would I would
absolutely absolutely
not vote vote
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Question 36
Free Democrats
National Democratic Union
Self-Determination Union
Prosperous Armenia
Yerkrapah Union
Heritage
People’s Party
Liberal Democrats
Solidarity Party
Armenian National Congress
Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun)
People’s Party of Armenia
Republican Party of Armenia
Armenian National Movement
MIAK
Union of Constitutional Rights
Sardarapat Movement
Social Democrats
Rule of Law

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CARD 11
Question 38

Avetisyan Sargis
Baghdasaryan Artur
Demirchyan Stepan
Tsarukyan Gagik
Karapetyan Tigran
Hayrikyan Paruyr
Harutyunyan Aram
Harutyunyan Khosrov
Hovhannisyan Vahan
Hovhannisian Raffi
Manukyan Vazgen
Rubinyan Karapet
Sargsyan Serzh
Ter-Petrosyan Levon
Kocharyan Robert

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Question 41

1. Problems with voters’ list

2. One person voting for other people
3. Unequal access to media for some candidates
or parties
4. Harassment of party activists
5. Bribing of voters
6. Harassment of voters
7. Voters feeling they have to vote a specific way
to keep their jobs
8. People voting more than once
9. Employers forcing employees to take part in a
campaign
10. Ballot stuffing
11. Local neighborhood thugs

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CARD 13
Question 45; 46

1 Absolutely free and fair

2 Somewhat free and fair

3 Neither free nor fair

4 Somewhat nor free or fair

5 Absolutely not free and fair

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CARD 14
Question 47

1 Completely trust
2 Somewhat trust
3 Neither trust nor distrust
4 Somewhat distrust
5 Completely distrust

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Question 49

1 Strongly disagree
2 Somewhat disagree
3 Neither agree nor disagree
4 Somewhat agree
5 Strongly agree

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Question 50

1. Nothing
2. Too little
3. Enough
4. Too much

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Question 51

5 Very positively
4 Somewhat positively

3 Neither negatively nor

positively
2 Somewhat negatively
1 Very negatively

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Question 52

1 State
2 Business
3 Parties themselves
Armenian citizens living in
4
Armenia
Armenian citizens living
5
abroad
6 CEC

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CARD 19
Question 61

1 At home
2 Public meeting
3 In their office
4 In written communication
5 By phone
6 Email (internet)

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Question 63

1 All majoritarian MPs should

represent an equal number of
people.

2 All electoral districts should have

one majoritarian MP, in spite of
the size of their population.

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CARD 21
Question 65

Statement 1:

In electing a Member of Parliament, I

prefer to vote for a candidate who can
be useful for my community.
Statement 2:

In electing a Member of Parliament, I

prefer to vote for a candidate who can
make policies that benefit everyone in
our country.

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Question 70

Additional state funding for

1 parties with more women
candidates
Additional free pre-election
2 air time for parties with more
women candidates.
Quotas in law to guarantee
3
more women candidates.

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Question 71; 72

1. Very badly
2. Somewhat badly
3. Neither good nor bad
4. Somewhat well
5. Very well

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Question 73

1 Do not trust at all

2 Somewhat distrust

3 Neither trust nor distrust

4 Somewhat trust

5 Fully trust

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Question 84

1 Not influential at all

2 Somewhat not influential

3 Somewhat influential

4 Very influential

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Question 90; 91

Colleagues
Family members
Neighbors, friends
Internet
Newspapers, news magazines
Radio
TV

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Question 93

1 Mostly pro government

Does not reflect the interests of

2
either

3 Mostly pro opposition

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Question 94; 98

Fully Fully
distrust trust
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Question 95

1. Debates on legislative issues

2. Debates on political issues
3. Unedited party press conferences
4. Parliamentary sessions (plenary)
5. Council of the Elders sessions
6. Parliamentary Committee sessions
7. Unedited live coverage of opposition
party activities
8. Local government activities
9. Executive government (President,
Ministries, Governor) activities

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Question 100

Statement 1:

The news media should constantly

investigate and report on corruption
and the mistakes made by the
government.

Statement 2:

Too much reporting on negative

events, like corruption, only harms
the country.

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CARD 31
Question 104

1 Unemployed and looking for a job

Unemployed and interested in a job, but
2
currently NOT looking for a job
Unemployed and not interested in looking
3
for a job (if not a housewife)
4 Student
5 Housewife
6 Retired and looking for a job
Retired and interested in a job, but
7
currently NOT looking for one
Retired and NOT interested in looking for
8
a job
9 Disabled

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Question 111

1 Not at all important

2 Hardly important
Neither important or
3 unimportant
4 Quite important
5 Very important

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Question 112

1 Every day
2 More than once a week
3 Once a week
4 At least once a month
5 Only on special holidays
6 Less often
7 Never

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Question 117

1 More than ArmD 446,001

2 301,001-446,000 ArmD
3 151,001-301,000 ArmD
4 93,001-151,000 ArmD
5 38,001-93,000 ArmD
6 19,001-38,000 ArmD
7 Up to 19,000 ArmD

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