Liesbet Hooghe, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill and Chair in Multilevel Governance at the VU Amsterdam
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Data

Political Parties

The Chapel Hill expert surveys estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries. The first survey was conducted in 1999, then in 2002, in 2006 and most recently in 2010. The number of countries increased from 14 Western European countries in 1999 to 24 current or prospective EU members in 2006 and 2010, and the number of national parties from 143 to 227. Common to all surveys are questions on parties' general position on European integration, several EU policies, general left/right, economic left/right, and galtan; later surveys contain also questions on non-EU policy issues. The dataset 1999-2006ChapelHillsurvey.sav joins up data from the 1999, 2002, and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys. Below we list the SPSS dataset, codebook, and questionnaires for each survey year as well as the combined dataset.

The 2010 survey is on its way. Check back in January 2012.

These surveys have been possible thanks to research grants from the European Union Center for Excellence, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and support from the Chair for Multilevel Governance, at the VU University Amsterdam.

2006 Chapel Hill expert survey

2002 Chapel Hill expert survey

1999 Chapel Hill expert survey

1999-2006 Combined Chapel Hill expert survey

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We also conducted a mini-survey in 2007 in five candidate countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey.

2007 Candidate-countries survey

Finally, there is a link to an earlier survey by Leonard Ray for the time points 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996. The combined dataset Ray-Marks-Steenbergen merges the 1999 Chapel Hill survey with the Ray dataset. We relabeled the original variable names and party ids in the Ray data to make them consistent with those in the Chapel Hill survey. This makes it also possible for researchers to combine this dataset with the 2002 and 2006 data. The original Ray dataset is available from Ray's website.

Ray-Marks-Steenbergen survey

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