| 1. Title of the study: | “Formation of Public Leaders in the Post-communist Belarus” |
| 2. Topics of thematic coverage: | public attitudes towards public leaders and public participation in the process of their formation |
| 3. The aim: | to reveal the most important factors of formation of public leaders in post-communist Belarus |
| 4. Descriptors: | leadership, executive, legislative and judicial powers, local authority, conflicts, politicians, businessmen, youth leaders, media policy makers, public dialogue |
| 5. Political block: | а) media political activity b) participation in general elections c) popularity of political parties, public movements and their leaders |
| 6. Comparability: | most important questions were replicated |
| 7. Geographical area: | Belarus-national |
| 8. Principal investigator: | IISEPS |
| 9. Polling organization: | IISEPS, P.O.B. 219, Minsk, 220030, Belarus, e-mail: iiseps@iiseps.org |
| 10. Fieldwork dates: | 1996, May-June |
| 11. Population sampled: | 18+ years old residents of Belarus who are not currently in hospital, jail, military service |
| 12. Sampling: | clustered random |
| 13. Sample size: | 1535 respondents |
| 14. Mode of interviews: | face-to-face interview |
| 15. Interviewers: | part-time and university students |
| 16. Control: | selective control of interviewers |
| 17. Related publications: | 79 publications in mass media |
| 18. Availability of the original data sets: | contact with IISEPS |
| 19. Source of information: | IISEPS |