A Common Left-Right Scale for Voters and Parties in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7971024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Lo (0000-0002-1479-4476, University of Mannheim), Sven-Oliver Proksch (0000-0002-6130-6498, McGill University, corresponding author), Thomas Gschwend (0000-0002-8656-9622, University of Mannheim) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-223 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1047-1987 • E-ISSN: 1476-4989 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pan/mpt028 |
| OpenAlex | W2323450102 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 50 |
This article presents a scaling approach to jointly estimate the locations of voters, parties, and European political groups on a common left-right scale. Although most comparative research assumes that cross-national comparisons of voters and parties are possible, few correct for systematic biases commonly known to exist in surveys or examine whether survey data are comparable across countries. Our scaling method addresses scale perception in surveys and links cross-national surveys through new bridging observations. We apply our approach to the 2009 European Election Survey and demonstrate that the improvement in party estimates that one gains from fixing various survey bias issues is significant. Our scaling strategy provides left-right positions of voters and of 162 political parties, and we demonstrate that variables based on rescaled voter and party positions on the left-right dimension significantly improve the fit of a cross-national vote choice model
Bridging (networking · Comparative politics · Dimension (graph theory · Econometrics · Economics · Geography · Left and right · Multidimensional scaling · National election · Perception · Political science · Politics · Scale (ratio · Scaling · Statistics · Survey data collection · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Mathematics · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Law
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