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Issue Competition Comparative Project (ICCP)

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA7499 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13374
Abstract: The Issue Competition Comparative Project (ICCP) is a comparative research project about party competition. The aim is to analyze party competition through an issue competition perspective, i.e. by conceptualizing political parties and leaders as rational, vote-maximizing political entrepreneurs that strategically exploit available issue opportunities in a context where voters are available across ideological boundaries. The first ICCP data collection round has covered six West European countries (Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Italy) that held general elections in 201 ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 27.02.2017 - 12.02.2018
Date(s) of Data Collection: 08.09.2017 - 11.10.2017, Austria | 28.08.2017 - 12.09.2017, Germany | 21.03.2017 - 11.04.2017, France | 06.02.2018 - 12.02.2018, Italy | 27.02.2017 - 10.03.2017, Netherlands | 12.05.2017 - 31.05.2017, United Kingdom
Geographic coverage: Austria (AT) | Germany (DE) | France (FR) | Italy (IT) | Netherlands (NL) | United Kingdom (GB)
Universe: Persons aged 18 and over (Austria: 16 and over) currently residing in the respective country and belonging to an opt-in web panel partner of Opinione.net (Demetra). Tweets on the public profile of the party and the main frontrunners/leaders of the party in the respective country during the last four months of the election campaign.
Number of Units: de: 1001 fr: 1207 gb: 1000 it: 1000 nl: 2001 twitter: 1206
Sampling Procedure: • Non-probability: Quota • Total universe/Complete enumeration; Survey data were collected by a quota sampling procedure. Social media data comprise monitoring of the public profile of the party and on the public profile of the main frontrunners/leaders of the party during the last four months of the election campaign.
Temporal Research Design: Cross-section
Analysis Unit: Individual | Media unit: Text
Mode of Data Collection: • Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI) • Content coding;
Data Collector: Demetra Opinioni.net Srl, Venice, Italy
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Kind of Data: Numeric
Number of Variables: de: 342 fr: 469 gb: 382 it: 456 nl: 484 twitter: 25

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: De Sio, Lorenzo - LUISS University Rome | Emanuele, Vincenzo - LUISS University Rome | Maggini, Nicola - University of Florence | Paparo, Aldo - LUISS University Rome | Angelucci, Davide - LUISS University Rome | D´Alimonte, Roberto - LUISS University Rome
Publication year: 2019
DOI: 10.4232/1.13374 | 10.4232/1.13328
Study number: ZA7499
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 2.0.0, 2019-10-01, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13374
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Reference publications

Publications: De Sio, Lorenzo; De Angelis, Andrea; Emanuele, Vincenzo (2017): Issue yield and party strategy in multi-party competition. Comparative Political Studies, Available online https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414017730082 | CISE - Italian Center for Electoral Studies: The year of challengers? Issues, public opinion, and elections in Western Europe in 2017 Ed ... more
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De Sio, Lorenzo, Emanuele, Vincenzo, Maggini, Nicola, Paparo, Aldo, Angelucci, Davide, & D´Alimonte, Roberto (2019). Issue Competition Comparative Project (ICCP). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA7499 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13374.

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