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Jonathan Polk

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Analyzing the Cross-National Comparability of Party Positions on the Socio-Cultural and EU dimensions in Europe

Author

  • Ryan Bakker
  • Seth Jolly
  • Jonathan Polk

Summary, in English

Using survey vignettes and scaling techniques, we estimate common socio-cultural and European integration dimensions for political parties across the member states of the European Union. Previous research shows that party placements on the economic left-right dimension are cross-nationally comparable across the EU; however, the socio-cultural dimension is more complex, with different issues forming the core of the dimension in different countries. The 2014 wave of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey included anchoring vignettes which we use as “bridge votes” to place parties from different countries on a common liberal/authoritarian dimension and a separate common scale for European integration. We estimate the dimensions using the Bayesian Aldrich–McKelvey technique. The resulting scales offer cross-nationally comparable, interval-level measures of a party's socio-cultural and EU ideological positions.

Publishing year

2022

Language

English

Pages

408-418

Publication/Series

Political Science Research and Methods

Volume

10

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2049-8489