Measuring party positions in Europe: The Chapel Hill expert survey trend file, 1999–2010

Party Politics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 143-152

  Bakker, Ryan ^a   de Vries, Catherine ^b   Edwards, Erica ^c   Hooghe, Liesbet ^c,d   Jolly, Seth ^e   Marks, Gary ^c,d   Polk, Jonathan ^f   Rovny, Jan ^f   Steenbergen, Marco ^g   Vachudova, Milada Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

European politics; expert surveys; party politics; reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919627455     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068812462931     Document Type: Article

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