Expert surveys
http://parlgov.org
Gavrilova Yulia
Parliament and Government Composition
Database (ParlGov) is a simplified statics and valuation of
political parties, which contains data on parties for all
EU and most of OECD members for the entire post-war
period by Holger Döring and Philip Manow.
Database description
There are 23 columns in this database. They contain
general information about parties, countries of the
parties, some information about the aspects of the
parties and there are columns dedicated to
previous researches on parties, to connect this
database with the some important other databases.
How does it look?
country_name_short
Three letter abbreviation of country
country_name
Name of country
party_name_short
Parties’ short name abbreviation
party_name_english
party_name_ascii
Parties’ name in ASCII (American Standard Code for
Information Interchange) encoding
family_name_short
The short version of family name, which reflects parties’s
general political philosophy.
Left_right
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What goods and services should and
should not be public goods. Those who
want the government to organize a
nation’s economy are on the left;
those who want private enterprise to
organize a national economy are on the
right.
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Mean value in left/right dimension
with data from Castles/Mair 1983,
Huber/Inglehart
1995,
Benoit/Laver
2006 and CHESS 2010
state_market
Mean value in 'regulation of the economy'
dimension with data from Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHESS
2010
liberty_authority
Mean value in 'libertarian/authoritarian' dimension
with data from Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHESS 2010
eu_anti_pro
Mean value in 'EU integration' dimension with data
from Ray 1999, Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHESS 2010
cmp
The party IDs from Comparative Manifestos Project by Budge
and Klingemann
https://manifestoproject.wzb.eu/
euprofiler
The party IDs from EU Profiler by Trechsel and Mair
http://www.euprofiler.eu/
EES
The party IDs from European Election Study
The European Election Studies (EES) are about electoral
participation and voting behavior in European Parliament
election. Elections to the European Parliament are held
every five years. In ParlGov database, also the party IDs are
used in order to make matching two studies easier.
castles_mair
The party IDs from Castles and Mair’s expert survey (1983)
huber_inglehart
The party IDs from Huber and Inglehart’s expert survey
(1995)
This paper draws on a survey of political experts in 42 societies to
address three questions raised by these changes. First, is the
language of left and right still widely used, even in recently
democratized countries? Second, do there exist secondary
dimensions of political conflict that are orthogonal to the leftright dimension? Third, and most importantly, what substantive
issues define the meaning of left-right ideology?
Ray
The party IDs from Ray’s expert survey (1999)
http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/lray2/data/data.htm
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benoit_laver
The party IDs from Benoit and Laver’s expert survey (2006)
For example, a table for Turkish parties is given in
«external_party_benoit_laver.csv»
CHESS
For the 2010 survey, 343 experts evaluated 237 political
parties on European integration, ideology, and issue
positions in all EU member states, except for
Luxembourg, Cyprus and Malta.
The experts in the 2010 survey also evaluated parties in 4
non-EU countries: Croatia, Norway, Switzerland, and
Turkey. For the non-EU states, the time series varies
by country (e.g. Experts evaluated Turkey in 2006 and
2010, but not in earlier surveys.)
CHESS
Articles
Estimating party policy positions: Comparing
expert surveys and hand-coded
content analysis
In this paper were compared estimates of the left-right
positions of political parties derived from an expert
survey recently
completed by the authors with those derived by the
Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) from the
content analysis of
party manifestos. Firstly was explored the substantive
policy content of left and right in the expert survey
estimates. Then was compared the expert survey to the
CMP method on methodological grounds. Thirdly, was
compared the expert survey results to the CMP results
for the most recent time period available, revealing
some agreement but also numerous inconsistencies in
Cross-temporal and Cross-national Comparisons of Party LeftRight Positions
In this article was investigated the cross-time and crossnation comparability of party left-right position
measurements by expert surveys and the Comparative
Manifesto Project (CMP). While expert surveys show party
left-right positions to be mostly static, we find the CMP
records systematic party movements for one-third of the
parties analyzed. On the issue of cross-national
comparability, was found cross-national variation in expert
surveys is muted. They contain little more than the
variation associated with reputations based on party-family
affiliation. The CMP measurements, on the other hand,
contain variation attributable to national party-system
differences.
The Preferences of Political Experts and Their Impact on
Ideological Bias.
An Unfolding Analysis based on Benoit-Laver Expert Survey
In this article is shown that expert surveys method to
detect the policy preferences of parties is not without
flaws. For example it can be shown that in somes
cases there is an evidence of bias in the expert
placements of parties along the Left-Right dimension,
especially against right-wing parties (not necessarily
extreme-right ones). Was used the latest expert survey
of Benoit and Laver (2006) to unfold the ideal points of
the political experts who actually answered to the
survey. By doing this, was shown that the Left-Right
position of a party appears to be less important than the
policy preferences of experts (and their variance) to
explain the probability of a party being biased.