Henryk Domaski 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.Pawe B. Sztabiski 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 Sztabiski is Professor of Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences with a special interest in Mode Effects issues and Mixed Mode Survey Design.

• Contents: Andrzej Rychard: Old and new hypotheses about legitimacy and trust Tomasz Panek: Subjective personal and social well-being in European countries Henryk Domaski/Artur Pokropek/Tomasz tak: Empirical test of political dealignment in European countries Zbigniew Sawiski/Kazimierz M. Somczyski/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 Dorothe 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 Pawe B. Sztabiski: Is it worthwhile reducing the nonresponse rate by multiplied contact attempts? The example of ESS round 5 and 6 in Poland Denisa Fedkov/Michal Kento/Jozef Vrost: Baking the ESS: A Slovak recipe with a 10-year perspective.