The present collection of articles is based on data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and analyses the changes in European societies. The first part of the volume is devoted to relations between legitimization, subjective well-being, voting patterns, and the role of social cohesion in determination of political culture. The second part addresses methodological questions designed to quantify the reliability and validity of certain measures in interviews, coverage errors, measurement errors, and non-response, as well as the understanding of questions in multi-country surveys in the context of the comparability between countries.

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Henryk Domanski is Professor of Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Head of the Department of Studies on Methods and Techniques of Sociological Research and Department of Studies on Social Structure.
Pawel B. Sztabinski is Professor of Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has done work on survey techniques, in particular non-response issues and Mixed Mode Survey Design.
Franciszek Sztabinski is Professor of Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences with a special interest in Mode Effects issues and Mixed Mode Survey Design.

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Contents: Andrzej Rychard: Old and new hypotheses about legitimacy and trust - Tomasz Panek: Subjective personal and social well-being in European countries - Henryk Domanski/Artur Pokropek/Tomasz Zóltak: Empirical test of political dealignment in European countries - Zbigniew Sawinski/Kazimierz M. Slomczynski/Irina Tomescu-Dubrow: Legitimacy and Trust in European Countries: Macro-structural Explanation of Changes, 2002-2012 - Jaak Billiet/Bart Meuleman/Eldad Davidov: Some methodological challenges of cross-national social research: conceptual and measurement validity - Dorothée Behr/Michael Braun: Satisfaction with the way democracy works: How respondents across countries understand the question - Hideko Matsuo/Jaak Billiet: The use of paradata for non-response bias adjustment: A case study on reluctant respondents and fieldwork implementation - Pawel B. Sztabinski: Is it worthwhile reducing the nonresponse rate by multiplied contact attempts? The example of ESS round 5 and 6 in Poland - Denisa Fedáková/Michal KentoS/Jozef Výrost: Baking the ESS: A Slovak recipe with a 10-year perspective.