Assessing Political Representation in Europe by Christine Arnold & Mark N. Franklin

Author:Christine Arnold & Mark N. Franklin [Arnold, Christine & Franklin, Mark N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780415711203
Google: 7qiunAEACAAJ
Goodreads: 17939353
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-26T06:30:15+00:00

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In order to collect party-level information, we conducted an expert survey in Central Eastern and Western Europe. For Central Eastern Europe (CEE) in the autumn of 2007, the analyses presented here are based on 70 parties from 10 CEE countries (see columns 1–3 in Appendix Table A1 for the parties and countries in this study).3 Nearly simultaneously with the survey in CEE, we also conducted an expert survey in the early spring of 2008, covering 104 parties in 14 democracies in Western Europe (WE).

For each country, we first assembled a master list of experts whom we considered sufficiently qualified to be an expert for our study. First, the most important requirement was that an expert had to have published an article on a party system in the past 10 years. We also required that a scholar published this article in English in a peer-reviewed journal. This demand may seem unnecessarily stringent but assures us that experts had the detailed knowledge about a given party system necessary to answer our long questionnaire in the English language. Second, we canvassed our own contacts for recommendations. If these recommendations met the first requirement (which they nearly always did), we included them in our master list of experts. In total, we assembled a list of 504 names. For each country, we aimed to have 10 completed questionnaires. While there is no fixed number that one should achieve with an expert survey, Huber and Inglehart (1995) suggest that one should obtain a minimum of five experts per country; a strategy that was empirically supported by Huber and Gabel (2000) who show that various expert surveys converge on their estimates for parties’ overall ideological orientation. As column 1 in Table 1 makes plain, we have a sufficient number of experts for each country, with many countries meeting the goal of 10, and all coming close to it.

TABLE 1

THE INFLUENCE OF INSTITUTIONAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON IDEOLOGICAL DISTANCE BETWEEN PARTIES AND DIVERSE CONSTITUENCIES

Variables

All constituents

Independent constituents

Partisan constituents

Median IV

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