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H1 states that political activism will be highest in the well established democracies of Western/Northern Europe and lowest in the young democracies in Eastern Europe. Table 4 shows that this seems to be right. The twelve countries with highest levels of political activism, our indicator of political disaffection, are located in Western and especially Northern Europe. Activism is highest in Sweden (M = 1.98, SD = 1.76) and Norway (M = 1.93, SD = 1.88). With exception of the Czech Republic, the citizens of Eastern European countries are less active; thus, the most disaffected. Political activism is lowest in Hungary (M = 0.49, SD = 1.94) and Poland (M = 0.52, SD = 1.06). Comparing the three groups of countries, we find an average mean of 1.61 in Western/Northern Europe, of 0.74 in Southern Europe, and of 0.67 in Eastern Europe. Interestingly, standard deviations do not differ that much although the value is higher when the group of countries is more active. This means that the differences between respondents within the three groups are more or less the same.