How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: A comparative analysis of the ‘left–right’ and the ‘European integration’ dimensions

Ecker, Alejandro; Jenny, Marcelo; Müller, Wolfgang C.; Praprotnik, Katrin

doi:10.1177/1354068821990298

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“…However, as is typical in studies of this type, our interest is precisely to read the government's policy position from a corpus consisting of its own statements. This is consistent with studies that analyze political texts from unilateral sources such as party manifestos (Eder et al, 2017), party elite interviews (Ecker et al, 2022), and public pronouncements or speeches by key political actors such as chief executives (Kaufman, 2020;Panao and Pernia, 2022).…”

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Junctures in the time of COVID-19: Topic search and government's framing of COVID-19 response in the Philippines

Panao

Rye

2023

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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This article argues that, like many in Southeast Asia, the Philippine government's COVID-19 response was marked by policy experimentation and incremental adaptation, having been caught off-guard by the pandemic. Examining 16,281 government press releases related to COVID-19 issued by the Philippine News Agency between February 2020 and April 2021, we find that in its policy narratives the government panders initially to citizen demand, highlighting social amelioration as a pandemic strategy. However, as citizens’ economic anxiety further intensifies, the government's framing of the crisis response becomes pragmatic and turns towards promoting mass inoculation, ostensibly in a bid to convince citizens to choose health over short-term palliative economic measures. The findings nuance policymaking in an illiberal democracy, beyond the conventional populist description of seeking easy solutions or spectacularizing crisis response.

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Section: Data Variables and Analytical Approachsupporting

confidence: 85%

Junctures in the time of COVID-19: Topic search and government's framing of COVID-19 response in the Philippines

Panao

Rye

2023

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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“…Second, our analysis is based on the measurement of party positions via party manifestos. These are, however, not without coding issues and pitfalls (Ecker et al, 2022). For instance, promises in manifestos may differ from implemented policies and hide true party preferences, as parties carefully consider what image they want to evoke.…”

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How party competition shapes ethnic parties’ positions on migration and immigration

Debus

Schulte

2022

Party Politics

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What positions do ethnic parties adopt on issues related to migration and immigration? We argue that, first, the specific characteristics of the party system – that is, if there are further ethnic parties that compete for votes, in particular among the same ethnic group – matter for the policy profile of ethnic parties on immigration policy. Secondly, we expect that the ideological position of an ethnic party should matter for their immigration policy position: ethnic parties with a more right-wing ideological profile should adopt more negative positions on immigration, in particular, if they face competition from another ethnic party. We use regression analysis and a manually coded sample of ethnic parties based on the Comparative Manifesto Project to test these assumptions. The empirical analysis provides support for our expectations: ethnic parties take more negative immigration positions if they compete with other parties among the same group of ethnic voters and the more the ethnic parties belong to the right wing of the ideological spectrum.

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“…Indeed, a recent cross-validation of party positioning comparing CHES-Europe, party elite, and manifesto surveys suggests that “expert data provide more valid estimates on the left–right dimension” and that estimates from expert and elite surveys “show a higher congruence than those derived from party manifestos” (Ecker et al, 2021: 10).…”

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Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions

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The degree to which party systems are ideologically and programmatically structured is central to democracy. This article analyzes differences in the extent and nature of programmatic structuration in Latin America and Europe, using a new original data source, the Chapel Hill Expert Survey-Latin America (CHES-LA), in combination with the long-standing CHES-Europe. First, we demonstrate the reliability of CHES-LA in relation to CHES-Europe, and substantiate its validity by comparing it to other expert, elite and party manifesto surveys in Latin America. Using confirmatory factor analysis, we then show that while party system structuration in Latin America is somewhat lower than in Europe, it is also of a decisively different nature. In Latin America economic and socio-cultural policy positions are largely captured in a single overlapping dimension; in Europe, by contrast, competition occurs overwhelmingly along two dimensions, each with distinct clusters of policy positions.

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How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: A comparative analysis of the ‘left–right’ and the ‘European integration’ dimensions

Cited by 12 publications

References 53 publications

Junctures in the time of COVID-19: Topic search and government's framing of COVID-19 response in the Philippines

Junctures in the time of COVID-19: Topic search and government's framing of COVID-19 response in the Philippines

How party competition shapes ethnic parties’ positions on migration and immigration

Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions

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