I. A series of datasets on the positioning of political parties for 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 1999, and 2003

II Two datasets on regional offices in Brussels

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2002 Chapel Hill Dataset
Questionnaire for enlargement countries
Questionnaire for EU-15 countries
Chapel Hill 2002 codebook

Marks/ Steenbergen/ Ray Dataset combined for 1984 to 1999
Marks/ Steenbergen/ Ray 84-99 codebook

These datasets are SPSS files. Please right-click the file, select 'save target/file as,' and then download the file to your hard drive.

Description of datasets

The Chapel Hill 2002 expert survey on party positioning on European integration covers 171 parties in 23 of the 25 current EU member states (not Luxembourg and Estonia) as well as in Bulgaria and Romania. The survey was administered between September 2002 and April 2003 to 636 academics specializing in parties, European integration, or closely related topics in one of the countries considered.

Principal investigators of the 2002 survey are Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen and Milada Vachudova.

The Marks/Steenbergen/Ray dataset combines the following:
1) An expert survey conducted by Leonard Ray for the years 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996
2) An expert survey conducted by Gary Marks and Marco Steenbergen for 1999.

To facilitate merging the 2002 dataset with the combined Ray/Marks/Steenbergen dataset we make party id and variable names for identical questions consistent across datasets (see codebook). Where questions are not identical we use different variable names.

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Papers by research team using the 2002 dataset

Marks, Gary, Liesbet Hooghe, Moira Nelson, Erica Edwards. 2006. “Party Competition and European Integration in East and West: Different Structure, Same Causality,” Comparative Political Studies 39 (2), 155-75.

Vachudova, Milada, and Liesbet Hooghe. 2006. "Postcommunist Politics in a Magnetic Field: How Transition and EU Accession Structure Party Competition on European Integration," submitted for publication.

Whitefield, Stephen Vachudova, Milada Anna, Steenbergen, Marco, Rohrschneider, Robert, Loveless, Matthew, Marks, Gary, and Hooghe, Liesbet. 2007. "Do Expert Surveys Produce Consistent Estimates of Party Stances on European Integration: Comparing expert surveys in the difficult case of Central and Eastern Europe." Electoral Studies 26: 50-61.

Other papers/publications by project participants using Chapel Hill survey datasets (alphabetical):

De Vries , Catherine, and Erica Edwards. 2005. "Playing the Right Tune: Examining Cueing Effects of Rightwing Euroskeptic Parties on Public Opinion regarding European Integration," submitted for publication.

Hooghe, Liesbet, Gary Marks, and Carole Wilson. 2002. "Does Left/Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration?" Comparative Political Studies 35: 8 (2002), 965-989.

Marks, Gary. 2007. "Triangulation and the Square Root Law." Introduction to the special issue on "Estimating Error in Measures of Party Positioning. Expert, Manifesto and Survey Data Compared," Electoral Studies 26: 1-10.

Marks, Gary, Liesbet Hooghe, Marco Steenbergen and Ryan Bakker. 2006. “Crossvalidating Data on Party Positioning on European Integration: A Comparison of Manifesto and Expert Data,” forthcoming in Electoral Studies 26: 23-38.

Steenbergen, Marco, and Gary Marks. “Evaluating Expert Judgments,” forthcoming in European Journal of Political Research.

Steenbergen, Marco, Erica Edwards, and Catherine Netjes. 2007. "Who is Cueing Whom? Elite-Mass Linkages and the Future of European Integration," European Union Politics 8 (1): 13-35.

See also several chapters in: Gary Marks and Marco Steenbergen eds. 2004. European Integration and Political Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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