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Simon Franzmann , André Kaiser: Locating Political Parties in Policy Space

Left-Right-Positions

In any papers or publications that utilize this data set, users are asked to cite the following article:
Franzmann, Simon/ Kaiser, André (2006): Locating Political Parties in Policy Space. A Reanalysis of Party Manifesto Data, Party Politics, 12:2, 163-188.

The Issue-Structures of the thirty-six party systems are pulished as appendix in Franzmann, Simon (2010, forhcoming): The Change of Ideology: How the Left-Right Cleavage transforms into Issue Competition. An Analysis of Party Systems using Party Manifesto Data. PhD Thesis. Cologne.
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Updated Pooled Data Containing Left-Right Positions 1945-2003

Updated pooled dataset using both the new data from

  • Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Budge, Ian/Macdonald, Michael (2006): Mapping Policy Preference II: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments in Eastern Europe, the European Union and the OECD, 1990-2003, Oxford: Oxford University Press; including CD Rom with MRG/CMP data for 50 countries 1990 to 2003, and
  • Budge, Ian/Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Tanenbaum, Eric (2001): Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD UPDATED Pooled Data 1945-2010 and credits (July 1, 2016)

Updated Country Data 1949-2010

Country
Australia
Austria 

Belgium (before 1981)

Belgium Flanders (from 1981)
Belgium Wallonia (from 1981)
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
USA

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Middle and Eastern European States

Updated Data 1949-2010 
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Estonia
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia

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Original Data by Franzmann/Kaiser

DOWNLOAD Pooled Data 1945-1998 based on old, non corrected calculations (Mar. 2006).

These Left-Right-Positions are calculated by using Budge, Ian/Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Tanenbaum, Eric (2001): Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

For further comments and questions concerning the data set please contact Simon Franzmann : simon.franzmann@hhu.de

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