Liesbet Hooghe, Zachary Taylor Smith 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, the next in 2002, and the most recent in 2006. The number of countries increased from 14 Western European countries in 1999 to 24 current or prospective EU members in 2006, 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.

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.

2006 Chapel Hill expert survey

2002 Chapel Hill expert survey

1999 Chapel Hill expert survey

1999-2006 Combined Chapel Hill expert survey

How to cite?

  • In papers using the 2002, 2006, or 2007 Candidate-countries dataset, please refer to Liesbet Hooghe, Ryan Bakker, Anna Brigevich, Catherine de Vries, Erica Edwards, Gary Marks, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen (2008), "Reliability and Validity of Measuring Party Positions: The Chapel Hill Expert Surveys of 2002 and 2006", unpublished ms. (This citation will be replaced by the article of record for the data set when information is available.)
  • In papers using the 1999 dataset, please refer to Marco Steenbergen and Gary Marks (2007). "Evaluating Expert Surveys," European Journal of Political Research, 46(3): 347–366.
  • In papers using the combined Chapel Hill expert survey (CHES), please refer to both Liesbet Hooghe, Ryan Bakker, Anna Brigevich, Catherine de Vries, Erica Edwards, Gary Marks, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen (2008), "Reliability and Validity of Measuring Party Positions: The Chapel Hill Expert Surveys of 2002 and 2006", unpublished ms. (This citation will be replaced by the article of record for the data set when information is available.) and Marco Steenbergen and Gary Marks (2007). "Evaluating Expert Surveys," European Journal of Political Research, 46(3): 347–366.

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

How to cite?

  • In papers using the combined Ray-Marks-Steenbergen dataset, please refer both to the Steenbergen/Marks (2007) article and to Leonard Ray (1999). Measuring party orientations toward European integration: Results from an expert survey. European Journal of Political Research, 36(2): 283–306.