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In any papers or publications that utilize this data set, users are asked to cite the following article:

• Spies, Dennis C. and André Kaiser, 2012: Does the Mode of Candidate Selection Affect the Representativeness of Parties? Party Politics (Online first, May 2012).
  
  http://ppq.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/04/30/1354068811436066

 

Funding
This article is based on research funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (The Dynamics of Party Competition [1741/5-1 and 1741/5-2]).

Acknowledgements
Our thanks go to our colleagues in the research team: Ingo Rohlfing, Simon Franzmann, Daniel Schultz, Julian Garritzmann, Alexander Mayer, Holger Reinermann, Tobias Schafföner, and Gregor Zons.

 

Data on party positions are available online at:

http://www.vergl-polwiss.uni-koeln.de/10603.html

 

Detailed data on intra-party candidate selection procedures are available
online (under construction):

http://www.vergl-polwiss.uni-koeln.de/16319.html