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Public Opinion

Policy positions of political parties

The Party Political Make-Up of EU Institutions
(Andreas Warntjen, Simon Hix, Christophe Crombez)

Left-right and pro/anti-Europe positions for the Commission, Council and European Parliament for the period 1979-2004.
(incorporates some of the data sets mentioned below)

Warntjen, Hix, Crombez (2008) ‘The Party Political Make-Up of EU Institutions’ (with C. Crombez and S. Hix), Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 1243-1253

Request Data: http://www.mb.utwente.nl/polmt/staff/Warntjen/form.doc/

Positioning of national political parties on European Integration

(Leonard Ray, Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen, Liebsbet Hooghe)

Expert survey on political parties, covering left-right placement and position on EU integration.

Data: http://www.unc.edu/euce/links.htm#data

Policy positions of political parties

(Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver)

Expert survey on political parties on left-right positions in 47 countries
 

Benoit, Kenneth and Michael Laver (2006): Party Policy in Modern Democracies, London:

Routledge.
 

Data:  http://www.politics.tcd.ie/ppmd/

Policy positions of political parties, electorates, and governments

(Party Manifesto Project)

Dataset which measures policy positions through content analysis of election programmes, parliamentary speeches and governmental policy statements.

Ian Budge et al. (2001), Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, electors, and Governments 1945-1998. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

On CD-ROM that comes with the book or

http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=2139

Electoral results

Parliament and Government Composition in EU Countries
Holger Döring and Philip Manow's interactive online database on parties, elections and governments in EU countries (plus European Parliament) for the post-WWII period.

Data: http://parlgov.org/

Government Composition in EU Countries
As part of the Constitutional Change and Parliamentary Democracies research programme the data set provides information on the coalition governments in Western Europe.

Strøm, K., W. Müller and T. Bergman (forthcoming). Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Data: http://www.pol.umu.se/ccpd/CCPD/dataarchive/dataarchive.asp

 Wolfram Nordsieck’s website with information on parties and elections in Europe since 1945

 http://www.parties-and-elections.de/

 IFES’s website with information on elections worldwide

 http://www.electionguide.org/about.php

 Inter-Parliamentary Union’s website with infromation on structure and working methods of national parliaments worldwide (since 
 1966)

 http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/parlinesearch.asp

 
European Parliament

Distribution of Seats and Roll Call Votes

 Roll call votes (searchable for individual MEPs and party groups) for the time period 2004-9

 www.votewatch.eu

Roll Call Votes

The data sets includes roll call data from the first to the fifth European Parliament (1979-2004). It shows the voting behaviour of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for each electronically registered vote. It also displays the aggregated voting behaviour of MEPs using nominate scores. The data set does also indicate to which party group and to which national party delegation each MEPs belongs at the beginning of each legislative term. 

Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland (2006) 'Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament', American Journal of Political Science, 50(2) 494-511.

Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland (2007) Democratic Politics in the European Parliament, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Data: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/HIX/HixNouryRolandEPdata.HTM

MEP-surveys by the European Parliament Research Group (EPRG)

EPRG conducted an on-line survey of the MEPs in the Sixth European Parliament (2004-09) in March-June 2006.  The data from this survey and our survey of the Fifth European Parliament (1999-2004), which was conducted in October-December 2000, are available here for academic research purposes.
The 2006 survey included the following questions: personal details (e.g. member state, date first elected to EP, previous political experience etc.); electoral systems and candidate selection; campaigning aims and activities in 2004 elections; attitudes/behaviour relating to representation; behaviour in committees and voting in the Parliament; general political attitudes; attitudes towards specific EU policies and attitudes towards EU institutional reform.

David Farrell, Simon Hix, Mark Johnson and Roger Scully (2006) 'EPRG 2000 and 2006 MEP Surveys Dataset'.

Data: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EPRG/survey.htm