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euandi 2014 (Expert Interviews) - Correspondence

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5918 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12478
Abstract: Position of European political parties on political issues The political positions were collected from the parties themselves. In parallel, the same positions were assessed by experts on the basis of party programmes, party websites, publications and other sources. These expert interviews (archived under ZA Study No. 5917) are a coded record of the political position of parties. In the event of discrepancies between the self-reported positions and the expert judgements, the parties were asked to comment. This correspondence is also available in the form of scans of e-mail traffic and was arch ... more
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Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 02.2014 - 04.2014
Geographic coverage: Austria (AT) | Belgium (BE) | Bulgaria (BG) | Cyprus (CY) | Czech Republic (CZ) | Germany (DE) | Denmark (DK) | Estonia (EE) | Spain (ES) | France (FR) | Greece (GR) | Croatia (HR) | Ireland (IE) | Lithuania (LT) | Malta (MT) | Netherlands (NL) | Poland (PL) | Sweden (SE) | Slovenia (SI) | United Kingdom (GB)
Universe: Political parties for the 2014 European Parliament elections, which should cover all relevant parties in the European elections. Therefore, the total number of candidates was limited to those parties which, according to opinion polls, had the prospect of at least one seat in the European Parliament.
Number of Units: 21
Sampling Procedure: • Total universe/Complete enumeration; Sample of parties: Total universe/Complete Enumeration Sample of positions: Non-probability Sample: Purposive Sample A total of 28 Europe-wide and 2 country-specific topics were selected. The criteria for inclusion in the sample were the relevance of the topic and the degree of differentiation between the ... more
Temporal Research Design: Cross-section
Analysis Unit: Organization/Institution
Mode of Data Collection: • E-mail interview;
Data Collector: European University Institute (EUI) and counry teams
Analysis System(s): PDF
Kind of Data: Text
Number of Variables: -

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Trechsel, Alexander H. - European University Institute (EUI), Florence | Garzia, Diego - European University Institute (EUI), Florence | De Sio, Lorenzo - LUISS University, Rome
Publication year: 2016
DOI: 10.4232/1.12478
Study number: ZA5918
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2016-02-29, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12478
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Reference publications

Publications: Garzia, D.; Trechsel, A.; De Sio, L. (2017). Party placement in supranational elections An introduction to the euandi 2014 dataset. Party Politics, 23(4), 333–341. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068815593456
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euandi is a social Voting Advice Application (VAA). It aims at helping citizens make an informed choice in the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections. Available in 24 languages, euandi invites users to react to 28 policy statements covering a wide range of contemporary policy issues and political values in European politics, as well as to ... more

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Trechsel, Alexander H., Garzia, Diego, & De Sio, Lorenzo (2016). euandi 2014 (Expert Interviews) - Correspondence. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5918 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12478.

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