Longitudinal dataset of political issue-positions of 411 parties across 28 European countries (2009–2019) from voting advice applications EU profiler and euandi

Reiljan, Andres; Silva, Frederico Ferreira da; Cicchi, Lorenzo; Garzia, Diego; Trechsel, Alexander H.

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105968

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“…Table 1 contains basic information on the three data collection waves. For more information on the dataset, see Reiljan et al (2020a). In each wave, the parties across all the countries were positioned on a set of identical policy statements.…”

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Three sides of the same coin? comparing party positions in VAAs, expert surveys and manifesto data

Silva

Reiljan

Cicchi

et al. 2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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Existing research on political parties' policy positions has traditionally relied on expert surveys and/or party manifesto data. More recently, Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) have been increasingly used as an additional method for locating parties in the policy space, with a closer focus on concrete policy issues. In this manuscript, we examine the reliability of party positions originated from a VAA, utilizing the euandi longitudinal dataset, which provides data on positions of over 400 unique political parties across 28 EU member states from the European Parliament elections of 2009, 2014 and 2019.We cross-validate euandi data with the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) and the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES). Our results attest the reliability of the euandi trend file vis-à-vis remaining data sources, demonstrating the validity of VAA-based methods to estimate the policy positions of European political parties. Convergence is especially high with CHES party placements. We also explore the sources of divergence in the estimation of policy positions across the three methods, finding little evidence of a systematic source of bias in the estimates between datasets. We conclude with an inventory of arguments in favour of party position measurements used by VAAs for the study of policy making in European democracies.

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Three sides of the same coin? comparing party positions in VAAs, expert surveys and manifesto data

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Reiljan

Cicchi

et al. 2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…We used data from the EU Profiler/euandi Trend File (2009–2019), made available by the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, which were collected during the EP election campaigns of 2009, 2014, and 2019 (Reiljan et al, 2020). They include party positions on a wide range of items that were measured in a similar way across all EU-member states.…”

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“…We analyse datasets that are uniquely suitable for analysing the associations between various policy issues over time and across regions, collected through pan-European Vote Advice Applications that include issue positions of political parties on a wide range of issues (Krouwel and van Elfrinkhof, 2014). With the EU Profiler/euandi Trend File data (Reiljan et al, 2020) we aim to contribute to recent studies on the impact of crises on party competition in Europe (e.g. Hutter and Kriesi, 2019; Schäfer et al, 2021) in several ways.…”

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Party competition over EU integration: asymmetrical impacts of external shocks across regions?

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2021

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Using Voting Advice Application (VAA) data from the EU Profiler/euandi Trend File, we studied how parties’ positions towards European integration relate to their positions on other important issues, and how this varies across EP elections, and between European regions. We hypothesized that the association between parties’ EU-integration positions and their positions on other issues was affected by the three major crises that hit the European Union (EU) between 2009 and 2019: the economic, migration, and climate crises. Additionally, we hypothesized that the economic and migration crises asymmetrically affected the association between cultural and economic issues on the one hand and the EU dimension on the other across the EU’s three macro regions (NWE, SE, and CEE). Our results show that neither the economic crisis nor the migration crisis or the climate crisis had an EU-wide impact on how European integration relates to other issue dimensions. As we hypothesized, economic issues were particularly strongly linked to EU-integration positions in SE in 2014, but our results additionally indicated that the longstanding interpretation of EU integration as a mainly economic issue in SE diminished after the start of the migration crisis. Finally, EU integration became related to immigration issues in CEE while this is not the case in the other regions. The main takeaway is that EU integration is interpreted differently by parties across the EU, which is important to recognize for parties that seek to work together in transnational party groups, and for scholars that aim to understand EU policy making.

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“…Altogether, the dataset contains more than 20 000 unique party positions. The political statements that the parties were placed on, were identical across all the countries and 15 of the statements remained the same throughout all three waves (2009,2014,2019) of data collection (Reiljan et al 2020b). That makes it -to the best of our knowledge -the largest dataset of VAA-based party placements.…”

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Party placement in the void: the European political space in 10 years of cross-national Voting Advice Applications

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Longitudinal dataset of political issue-positions of 411 parties across 28 European countries (2009–2019) from voting advice applications EU profiler and euandi

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Three sides of the same coin? comparing party positions in VAAs, expert surveys and manifesto data

Three sides of the same coin? comparing party positions in VAAs, expert surveys and manifesto data

Party competition over EU integration: asymmetrical impacts of external shocks across regions?

Party placement in the void: the European political space in 10 years of cross-national Voting Advice Applications

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