Simon Franzmann , André Kaiser: Locating Political Parties in Policy Space
Left-Right-Positions
In any papers or publications that utilize this data set, users are asked to cite the following article:
Franzmann, Simon/ Kaiser, André (2006): Locating Political Parties in Policy Space. A Reanalysis of Party Manifesto Data, Party Politics, 12:2, 163-188.
The Issue-Structures of the thirty-six party systems are pulished as appendix in Franzmann, Simon (2010, forhcoming): The Change of Ideology: How the Left-Right Cleavage transforms into Issue Competition. An Analysis of Party Systems using Party Manifesto Data. PhD Thesis. Cologne.
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Updated Pooled Data Containing Left-Right Positions 1945-2003
Updated pooled dataset using both the new data from
- Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Budge, Ian/Macdonald, Michael (2006): Mapping Policy Preference II: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments in Eastern Europe, the European Union and the OECD, 1990-2003, Oxford: Oxford University Press; including CD Rom with MRG/CMP data for 50 countries 1990 to 2003, and
- Budge, Ian/Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Tanenbaum, Eric (2001): Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press
DOWNLOAD UPDATED Pooled Data 1945-2010 and credits (July 1, 2016)
Updated Country Data 1949-2010
| Country |
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| Australia |
| Austria |
Belgium (before 1981) |
| Belgium Flanders (from 1981) |
| Belgium Wallonia (from 1981) |
| Canada |
| Denmark |
| Finland |
| France |
| Germany |
| Great Britain |
| Greece |
| Iceland |
| Ireland |
| Israel |
| Italy |
| Japan |
| Luxembourg |
| Netherlands |
| New Zealand |
| Norway |
| Portugal |
| Spain |
| Sweden |
| Switzerland |
| Turkey |
| USA |
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Middle and Eastern European States
| Updated Data 1949-2010 |
|---|
| Bulgaria |
| Czech Republic |
| Estonia |
| Hungary |
| Latvia |
| Lithuania |
| Poland |
| Romania |
| Slovakia |
| Slovenia |
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Original Data by Franzmann/Kaiser
DOWNLOAD Pooled Data 1945-1998 based on old, non corrected calculations (Mar. 2006).
These Left-Right-Positions are calculated by using Budge, Ian/Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Tanenbaum, Eric (2001): Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
For further comments and questions concerning the data set please contact Simon Franzmann : simon.franzmann@hhu.de