Mapping Policy Preferences - Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998

This unique book contains the only set of statistical estimates of party, government, and electoral preferences in 25 countries over the entire post-war period. These are based on content analyses of electoral and government programs for each election and government of the period, a task which no one else has even attempted. The printed text provides documentation and suggests uses for data, along with much other background information.

List of contents

• INTRODUCTION


• PART I: Policy Spaces, Preferences and Texts


• 2: Ian Budge and Judith Bara: Manifesto-based research : A critical review


• 3: Ian Budge: Theory and measurement of party policy positions


• PART II: Measurement Procedures


• 5: Derek J. Hearl: Checking the party policy estimates: Reliability


• 6: Michael D. McDonald and Sylvia Mendes: Checking the party policy estimates: Validity


• 7: Judith Bara: Using manifesto estimates to validate computerised analyses


• 8: Hee-Min Kim and Richard C. Fording: Extending party estimates to governments and electors


• 9: Eric Tanenbaum: Using the CD ROM

Summary

This text contains the full set of statistical estimates of party, government and electoral preferences in 25 countries over the entire post-war period. Included with the book is a comprehensive electronic reference.

Additional text

This attractive package, available for the first time in a combined book and CD-ROM format, compiles a lifetime of intellectual work by the primary author and offers a rich mine of information for scholars interested in comparative democratic performance

Product details

• Authors: Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Klingemann Hans-Dieter, Andrea Volkens
• Assisted by: Judith Bara (Editor), Bara Judith (Editor), Eric Tanenbaum (Editor), Tanenbaum Eric (Editor), Andrea Volkens (Editor), Volkens Andrea (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2001
• EAN: 9780199244003
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924400-3
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 439 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Reference works, Comparative Politics, Elections & referenda, Political parties and party platforms, Elections and referenda / suffrage