Measuring party positions in Europe

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Authors

Ryan Bakker · University of Georgia

Catherine E. De Vries · University of Oxford

Erica Edwards

Liesbet Hooghe

Seth Jolly · Syracuse University

Gary Marks

Jonathan Polk · University of Gothenburg

Jan Rovný · University of Gothenburg

Abstract

This article reports on the 2010 Chapel Hill expert surveys (CHES) and introduces the CHES trend file, which contains measures of national party positioning on European integration, ideology and several European Union (EU) and non-EU policies for 1999−2010. We examine the reliability of expert judgments and cross-validate the 2010 CHES data with data from the Comparative Manifesto Project and the 2009 European Elections Studies survey, and explore basic trends on party positioning since 1999. The dataset is available at the CHES website.

Topics & Keywords

European Union Policy and Governance Electoral Systems and Political Participation Social Policy and Reform Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Reduced inequalities

Publication Details

Published in: Party Politics

Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 143-152

DOI: 10.1177/1354068812462931

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