Mapping Policy Preferences II
Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments in Eastern Europe, European Union, and OECD 1990-2003
Published on 23. November 2006
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-929631-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is probably the most important source of evidence published up to now on the consolidation of democracy in Eastern Europe. It provides estimates of party positions, voter preferences and government policy from election programmes collected systematically for 51 countries from 1990 onwards. Time-series are presented in the text. This also reports party life histories (essential to over time analyses) and provides updated and newly validated vote statistics. All this information and much more is available on the devoted website described in the book. The final chapter gives instructions on how to access the data on your own computer. For comparative purposes, similar estimates of policy and preferences are given for CEE, OECD and EU countries. These estimates update the prize-winning data set covered in Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998 - also published by OUP. A must-buy for all commentators, students and analysts of democracy, in Eastern Europe and the world.
Reviews / Votes
...a major new publication for this very significant project. * Political Studies Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Numerous figures and tables
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-929631-6 (9780199296316)
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Persons
Ian Budge has been a leading member of the Department of Government, University of Essex, and the European Consortium for Political Research, for 30 years. He has held visiting positions in the USA, Australia, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, and has authored or edited some 25 books and 80 monographs in leading journals, some prize-winning.
Judith Bara: Founder member of Manifesto Research Group
Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary, University of London
Research Fellow in Government, University of Essex, specialising in analysis of political text relating to policy and public opinion. Contributed to many books and journals on these topics
Judith Bara: Founder member of Manifesto Research Group
Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary, University of London
Research Fellow in Government, University of Essex, specialising in analysis of political text relating to policy and public opinion. Contributed to many books and journals on these topics
Author
, Director of the research unit Institutions and Social Change at the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin
, Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin
, Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
, Professor of Government at the University of Essex
, Associate Professor in Politics, Binghamton University
Content
PART I: PARTIES AND REPRESENTATION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN UNION ; 1. Uniquely! Over-Time Mapping of Party Policy Movements in Central and Eastern Europe 1990-2003 ; 2. Beyond the Left-Right Dimension: Policy Profiles and Programmatic Coherence of Party Groupings in the European Parliament ; 3. A Common Space for Electoral Communication? Comparing Party and Voter Placements on a Left-Right Continuum in Western Europe and the CEE ; PART II: METHODOLOGY AND MEASUREMENT ; 4. Evaluating Validity with the Standard Left-Right Scale: Matching Measurements to Conceptual Intentions ; 5. Information or Error? Reliability of Policy Time series ; 6. Quantifying Policy Emphases in Texts Using the CMP Approach: Comparisons with Alternative Approaches. ; 7. Exploiting Manifesto Estimates of the Median for Multi-Level Analysis: Relating Electoral, Legislative and Government Policy Preferences ; 8. Using the Data