{"id":29100,"date":"2017-10-16T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2017\/10\/16\/appendix-political-categorization-global-democracy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:56:48","slug":"appendix-political-categorization-global-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2017\/10\/16\/appendix-political-categorization-global-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Appendix: Political categorization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this report, we grouped people into two political categories: those who support the governing political party (or parties) and those who do not. These categories were coded based upon the party or parties in power at the time the survey was fielded and respondents\u2019 answers to a question asking them which political party, if any, they identified with in their country.[1. Governing parties were not updated to account for elections that occurred after the survey was fielded and resulted in a new party (or parties) serving in government, as in France. Language used to measure party identification varied country by country.]<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In countries where multiple political parties govern in coalition (as in many European countries), survey respondents who indicated support for any parties in the coalition were grouped together. In Germany, for example, where the center-right CDU\/CSU governed with the center-left SPD at the time of the survey, supporters of all three parties were grouped together. In countries where different political parties occupy the executive and legislative branches of government, the party holding the executive branch was considered the governing party.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Survey respondents who did not indicate support for any political party, or who refused to identify with one, were considered to be <em>not<\/em> supporting the government in power. In the United States, for example, only those who supported the Republican Party were considered to be supporters of the governing party. Democrats, independents and those who don\u2019t know which party they feel closest to were considered non-supporters of the governing party.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In some countries, no respondents identified with one or more of the parties currently in a coalition government. 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