party names from the codebook of Chapel Hill Expert Surveys Series (CHESS) on the positioning of political parties (1996, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2010)
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Chapel Hill expert survey series (CHESS):
Hooghe, Liesbet et al. 2010. “Reliability and validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys on party positioning.” European Journal of Political Research 49(5):687–703.
Steenbergen, Marco, and Gary Marks. 2007. “Evaluating expert judgments.” European Journal of Political Research 46(3):347–366.
Ryan Bakker, Catherine de Vries, Erica Edwards, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Vachudova. 2012. "Measuring Party Positions in Europe: The Chapel Hill Expert Survey Trend File, 1999-2010.” Party Politics (forthcoming).
http://www.unc.edu/~gwmarks/data_pp.php
| Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| id | Chapel Hill expert survey series (CHESS) party ID (Hooghe ea. 2010; Marks/Steenbergen 2007) | integer |
| country | Chapel Hill expert survey series (CHESS) country ID (Hooghe ea. 2010; Marks/Steenbergen 2007) | integer |
| name short | party abbreviation | text |
| name | original name of party with native characters (this field may require a change of character encodings on your local computer) | text |
| name english | English name of party | text |