Helping Citizens to Locate Political Parties in the Policy Space

a Dataset for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

Authors

  • Kostas Gemenis Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
  • Fernando Mendez University of Zurich
  • Jonathan Wheatley Oxford Brookes University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-00401002

Keywords:

European Parliament elections, policy positions, political parties, Voting Advice Applications

Abstract

The authors present a dataset that contains the positions of 231 political parties across 28 countries on 30 policy issues that were considered salient for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. The party position estimates were originally used in a voter information tool which compared the policy preferences of citizens to those of political parties. The paper discusses the estimation method in the context of the literature on estimating party positions, outlines the coding methodology, and introduces the value of the dataset for third-party users interested in studying political participation and representation.

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Published

2019-03-22

Issue

Vol. 4 (2019)

Section

Data Papers

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Copyright (c) 2019 Kostas Gemenis, Fernando Mendez, Jonathan Wheatley

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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How to Cite

Helping Citizens to Locate Political Parties in the Policy Space: a Dataset for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. (2019). Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 4, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-00401002