Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998

by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum

Overview

Enriching and empowering its readers, this work gives the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors: parties, governments, and electors in twenty-five democracies over the whole post-war period. It provides a helpful CD-ROM, documentation and suggested uses for data, as well as extensive background information. Economists, socialists, and historians will find the book highly useful; political scientists, policy analysts, rational choice theorists, and comparativists will find it a must.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199244003
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/18/2001
Edition description:	BK&CD-ROM
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

University of Essex

both at Wissenchaftszentrum, Berlin

both at University of Essex

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION, Ian Budge and Judith Bara1. PART I: Policy Spaces, Preferences and Texts, Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Ian Budge2. Manifesto-based research : A critical review, Ian Budge and Judith Bara3. Theory and measurement of party policy positions, Ian Budge4. PART II: Measurement Procedures, Andrea Volkens5. Checking the party policy estimates: Reliability, Derek J. Hearl6. Checking the party policy estimates: Validity, Michael D. McDonald and Sylvia Mendes7. Using manifesto estimates to validate computerised analyses, Judith Bara8. Extending party estimates to governments and electors, Hee-Min Kim and Richard C. Fording9. Using the CD ROM, Eric Tanenbaum