Mapping Policy Preferences II Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments in Central and Eastern Europe, European Union and OECD 1990-2003 Includes CD-ROM

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

• ISBN13: 9780199296316
• ISBN10: 0199296316
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191516306
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book provides estimates of party positions, voter preferences and government policy from election programmes collected systematically for 51 countries from 1990 onwards. It provides these estimates directly for computer use on the CD ROM provided with it. The printed text provides documentation and suggests uses for the data.

Table of Contents

Parties and representation in Eastern Europe and the European Union
Uniquely! : over-time mapping of party policy movements in Central and Eastern Europe 1990-2003	p. 3
Beyond the left-right dimension : policy profiles and programmatic coherence of party groupings in the European Parliament	p. 28
A common space for electoral communication? : comparing party and voter placements on a left-right continuum in Western Europe and the CEE	p. 51
Methodology and measurement
Evaluating validity with the standard left-right scale : matching measurements to conceptual intentions	p. 63
Information or error? : reliability of policy time series	p. 86
Quantifying policy emphases in texts using the CMP approach : comparisons with alternative approaches	p. 105
Exploiting manifesto-based estimates of the median for multi-level analysis : relating electoral, legislative and government policy preferences	p. 124
Using the data	p. 138
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