Mapping Policy Preferences Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998

by Budge, Ian; Klingemann, Hans-Dieter; Volkens, Andrea; Bara, Judith; Tanenbaum, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780199244003
• ISBN10: 0199244006
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book uniquely enriches and empowers its readers. It enriches them by giving them the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors - parties, governments, and electors in 25 democracies over the post-war period. Estimates are providedfor every election and most coalitions of the post-war period and derive from the programmes, manifestos, and platforms of parties and governments themselves. Thus they form a uniquely authoritative source, recognized as such and provided through the labour of a team of international scholars over25 years.The book empowers readers by providing these estimates on the CD ROM contained in it. The printed text provides documentation and suggested uses for data, along with much other background information.The changing ideologies and concerns of parties trace general social developments over the post-war period, as well as directly affecting economic policy making. Indispensable for any serious discussion of democratic politics, the book provides necessary information for political scientists, policyanalysts, comparativists, sociologists, and economists. A must for every social science library - private as well as academic or public.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Content Analysis and Political Texts	1	(18)
Ian Budge
Judith bara
PART I POLICY SPACES, PREFRENCES AND TEXTS
Finally! Comparative over-time mapping of party policy movement	19	(32)
Ian Budge
Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Manifesto-based research: A critical review	51	(24)
Ian Budge
Judith Bara
Theory and measurement of party policy positions	75	(18)
Ian Budge
PART II MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES AND CHECKS
Quantifying the election programmes: Coding procedures and controls	93	(18)
Andrea Volkens
Checking the party policy estimates: Reliability	111	(16)
Derek J. Hearl
Checking the party policy estimates: Convergent validity	127	(16)
Michael D. McDonald
Silvia M. Mendes
Using manifesto estimates to validate computerized analyses	143	(14)
Judith Bara
Extending party estimates to governments and electors	157	(22)
Hee-Min Kim
Richard C. FordingProblems
Approaching the data	179	(14)
Eric tanenbaum
Appendix I. Politicla parties included in the data set	193	(22)
Appendix II. Manifesto coding instructions	215	(4)
Appendix III. Description of manifesto data set	219	(10)
Appendix IV. Missingparty documents	229	(4)
Appendix V. Mean percentage scores for parties on four policy stands	233	(12)
Appendix VI. Description of Government declaration data	245	(6)
Bibliography of manifesto-based reseach	251	(4)
General bibliography	255	(10)
Bibliography of electoral data sourcesp	265	(4)
Index	269