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

ABSTRACT: This data article provides a descriptive overview of the "EU Profiler/euandi trend file (2009-2019)" dataset and the data collection methods. The dataset compiles party position data from three consecutive pan-European Voting Advice Applications (VAAs), developed by the European University Institute for the European Parliament elections in 2009, 2014 and 2019. It includes the positions of 411 parties from 28 European countries on a wide range of salient political issues. Altogether, the dataset contains more than 20 000 unique party positions. To place the parties on the political issues, all three editions of the VAA have used the same iterative method that combines party self-placement and expert judgement. The data collection has been a collective effort of several hundreds of highly tr

SUBMITTER: Reiljan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341343 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature