Below is an alphabetized selection of research organizations, projects and databases that aggregate public opinion surveys of particular relevance to the field of public diplomacy.
For information on the release of specific public opinion surveys of relevance to public diplomacy as well as relevant news stories categorized by region, please visit our Public Opinion news category in Public Diplomacy in the News (PDiN).
More information on public opinion and public diplomacy is also available on CPD’s PD Wiki.
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The Angus Reid Global Monitor
Over 15,000 surveys from every continent on topics ranging from approval ratings for heads of government, to voting intention studies, and reviews of public sentiment on a wide array of global issues
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace And Development, University of Maryland
Arab Public Opinion Surveys
Public opinion surveys in six Arab countries since 2003 produced in collaboration with Zogby International
Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Aberdeen
New Russia Barometer
Surveys of public opinion in the Russian Federation, plus Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova
New Europe Barometer
Surveys of public opinion in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Romania
New Baltic Barometer
Surveys of public opinion in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Southeast Europe Barometer
Surveys of public opinion in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Public Opinion Surveys
Bi-annual large-scale public opinion studies comparing American and international public opinion on a wide-range of important international issues
East Asia Institute
Global Public Opinion Project
Cross-national surveys of public opinion gauging general characteristics and national differences in public attitudes on national, regional, and global issues
European Commission
Eurobarometer
Public opinion surveys on major topics of concern to European citizens
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Gallup
World Poll Analyses
Public opinion data from more than 130 countries
Muslim-West Relationships
A Gallup public opinion topical database
Perceptions of Foreign Countries
A Gallup topical database covering Americans’ perceptions of select foreign countries
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Transatlantic Trends
Surveys on issues of politics, foreign policy, current events, and general attitudes of publics in the United States and 12 European countries
Global Barometer
Surveys on the current social, political, and economic atmosphere around the world covering 3 continents and more than 48% of the world’s population
Afrobarometer
A comparative series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, markets and civil society in Africa
Arab Barometer
Surveys on the politically-relevant attitudes of ordinary citizens in the Arab world
Asian Barometer
Comparative surveys of attitudes and values toward politics, power, reform, democracy and citizens’ political actions in Asia
Latinobarometro
Annual public opinion surveys carried out in 18 Latin American countries
GlobeScan
Annual surveys of 50,000 average citizens and experts from across the world on a range of timely and strategic topics
Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University
Israeli-Palestinian Public Opinion Polls
Surveys of both Israeli and Palestinian publics since the beginning of the current Intifada tracing attitudes on the conflict, perceptions of majority support and expectations of future developments
InterMedia
AudienceScapes
Quantitative and qualitative research on audience, media and opinion trends in developing and transitional countries
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Palestinian Center for Public Opinion
Public opinion surveys in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, on political, economical, social, educational and health issues
The Pew Research Center
The Pew Global Attitudes Project
A series of worldwide public opinion surveys encompassing a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day
Publications on Global Attitudes/Foreign Affairs
Selected Pew Research Center reports (since 2005) on international public opinion and U.S. public opinion on national security and other foreign policy issues
The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), University of Maryland
WorldPublicOpinion.org
An international collaborative project surveying public opinion around the world on international issues
Americans and the World Digest
A database of U.S. public opinion surveys on international issues
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The World Values Survey
Surveys of sociocultural and political change worldwide
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