Final Report Summary - PGPE (Public Goods through Private Eyes. Exploring Citizens' Attitudes to Public Goods and the State in Central Eastern Europe)
“Public Goods through Private Eyes. Exploring Citizens’ Attitudes towards Public Goods and the State in Central-Eastern Europe” Project has been devoted to designing and carrying out a full-scale comparative public opinion survey in 14 post-communist countries. It has merged approaches from politics, sociology, economics and psychology to study people’s attitudes and behaviour towards public goods and common pool resources, such as healthcare, education or environment. The project has applied novel methodologies to interview over 21000 people in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. The project has focused on capturing the mechanisms underlying cooperation between citizens, and between citizens and the state in the context of provision of public goods and common pool resources. Data from interviews has been combined with a range of social and economic indicators describing respondents’ immediate neighbourhood, as well as their country. It will be a rich source of information for the academic community and policy makers alike.