We have updated and linked parties from the ParlGov project. It includes all parties from the 2024 stable release.
Döring, Holger, and Philip Manow. 2024. “ParlGov 2024 Release”, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:K8a6ry3vW3zUrTKMNo3u2w== [fileUNF] — doi:10.7910/DVN/2VZ5ZC
We have updated the technical stack to Django 4.2 LTS, Python 3.12 and PostGres 15.
We have archived the 2023 version at the Party Facts Dataverse. The version adds 5 datasets, about 3500 external parties and 90 core parties. The following datasets have been added:
The following datasets have been updated:
Bederke, Paul; Döring, Holger; Regel, Sven, 2023, "Party Facts – Version 2023", Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:WobavCRL6t8D7BIHsELRCw== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.1177/1354068818820671
We have updated and linked parties from the Manifesto Project. It includes all parties from the 2023a release.
We have updated and linked parties from the European Social Survey. It includes all parties from the latest release.
We have added parties from the Party Government in Europe Database (PAGED).
Hellström, Johan, Torbjörn Bergman, and Hanna Bäck. 2021. "Party Government in Europe Database (PAGED)". Main sponsor: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (IN150306:1). Available on erdda.org.
Bergman, Torbjörn, Hanna Bäck, and Johan Hellström (eds.). 2021. "Coalition Governance in Western Europe". Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bergman, Torbjörn, Gabriella Ilonszki and Wolfgang C. Müller, eds. 2019. "Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe". Oxford: Oxford University Press.
We have added parties from the Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset (ARPD).
We have added parties from the One-Party Membership Dataset (OPAMED).
We have added parties from the Thin Anti-Establishment Supply Dataset (TAESD).
Pytlas, Bartek. 2022. "Beyond populism: The diversity of thin anti-establishment contestation in turbulent times." Party Politics 0(0): 1-13. doi: 10.1177/13540688221080536
Pytlas, Bartek. 2022. "Thin Anti-Establishment Supply Dataset (TAESD)." doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/F23HM
We have added parties from the Poll of Polls - Europe.
Thanks to Lukas Warode for providing and linking the data.
We have archived the 2022 version at the Party Facts Dataverse. The version adds 4 datasets, about 5818 external parties and 39 core parties. The following datasets have been added:
The following dataset have been updated:
Bederke, Paul; Döring, Holger; Regel, Sven, 2022, "Party Facts – Version 2022", Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:R7kvaOlRe38zdI4tgvvQaA== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/BUWAAF
We have added parties from the Party Positions from Wikipedia Tags dataset.
We have added parties from the European NUTS-Level Election Dataset.
We have updated and linked parties from the ParlGov project. It includes all parties from the 2022 stable release.
Döring, Holger, Constantin Huber and Philip Manow. 2022. Parliaments and Governments Database (2022 Release). Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:YqVhBSeQ5eXs0aujzjdgRA== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/UKILBE
We have added parties from the New Party Entrance Dataset.
We have added parties from the WhoGov dataset.
We have archived the 2021 version at the Party Facts Dataverse. The version adds 6 datasets, about 3400 external parties and 80 core parties. The following datasets have been added:
The following datasets have been updated:
Bederke, Paul; Döring, Holger; Regel, Sven, 2021, "Party Facts – Version 2021", Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:LZBVFp/VQzPGckgpLi5Vlg== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/GM8LWQ
We have added parties from the Comparative Campaign Dynamics Dataset (CCDD).
We have added parties from the Global Populism Database (GPD).
After almost nine years since the initial start of the project, we can finally present a logo for Party Facts.
We have added parties from the Leaders Global dataset.
We spent two days on Party Facts for some updates, clean-up and to coordinate our agenda.
We have added parties from the Populist Parties in European Parliament Elections (PPEPE) dataset.
We have updated parties from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA).
Kollmann, Ken, Hicken, Allen, Caramani, Daniele, Backer, David, and Lublin, David. 2020. Constituency-Level Elections Archive [Data Set and Codebook]. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan [Producer and Distributor].
We spend a couple of days on Party Facts during a sprint. There was some maintenance work, we fixed open issues and did some minor adjustments to the user interface. Here are some of the issues we have addressed.
We have added parties from the Party Policy in Modern Democracies (1992–2009) expert surveys.
We have added parties from the Global Party Survey dataset.
We have archived the second 2020 version at the Party Facts Dataverse. The version adds 4 datasets, about 8200 external parties and 180 core parties. The following datasets have been added:
The following dataset have been updated:
Furthermore, we updated the codebook which is now available as R Markdown on our website and can be downloaded in our Github respository.
Bederke, Paul, Holger Döring and Sven Regel. 2020. "Party Facts – Version 2020b". Harvard Dataverse. V1. UNF:6:hFq2pS5B1pySsJk/DkeQqQ== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/LWFAHU
We have added parties from the Elections Global dataset.
Döring, Holger and Nils Düpont. 2020. "Elections Global: Election results in 207 countries, 1880–2015", Harvard Dataverse. V1. UNF:6:S4WwU5o0q6UVi7vYLGHeHQ== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/OGOURC
We have added parties from the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V-Party) dataset.
Lührmann, Anna, Nils Düpont, Masaaki Higashijima, Yaman Berker Kavasoglu, Kyle L. Marquardt, Michael Bernhard, Holger Döring, Allen Hicken, Melis Laebens, Staffan I. Lindberg, Juraj Medzihorsky, Anja Neundorf, Ora John Reuter, Saskia Ruth-Lovell, Keith R. Weghorst, Nina Wiesehomeier, JosephWright, Nazifa Alizada, Paul Bederke, Lisa Gastaldi, Sandra Grahn, Garry Hindle, Nina Ilchenko, Johannes von Römer, Steven Wilson, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim. 2020. Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V-Party) Dataset V1. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. doi: 10.23696/vpartydsv1
Pemstein, Daniel, Kyle L. Marquardt, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Juraj Medzihorsky, Joshua Krusell, Farhad Miri, and Johannes von Römer. 2020. "The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data". V-Dem Working Paper No. 21. 5th edition. University of Gothenburg: Varieties of Democracy Institute.
We have updated and linked parties from the ParlGov project. It includes all parties from the 2020 stable release.
Döring, Holger and Philip Manow. 2020. Parliaments and governments database (2020 release). Harvard Dataverse. V1. UNF:6:mUoYp2KfQii0z+5dEZum1w== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/Q6CVHX
We have added parties from the Voteview dataset.
Jeffrey B. Lewis et al. 2020. “Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database.” voteview.com
We have updated and linked parties from the European Social Survey (ESS) data set in Party Facts (PF). It includes now both party variables, prtc* ("party closer to") and prtv* ("party voted for").
This was a revision that took a significant amount of time. Paul manually harmonized all ESS and PF ids based on previous imports and a temporary ESS-9 version. Paul and Holger went through several rounds of code revisions and discussed different solutions until they found a maintainable approach. For us, it was probably the most complex dataset we have added to PF so far.
The previous ESS import can be found at Github.
We have updated the codebook as R Markdown. It is now possible to access it directly on our website and can be downloaded in our Github respository.
We have added parties from the Timbro Authoritarian Populism Index (TAP) dataset.
Timbro & The Foundation for Free Enterprise studiomagaluf.se
We have updated and linked parties from the CHES 2019 data set.
Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova. 2020. “2019 Chapel Hill Expert Survey.” Version 2019.1. Available on chesdata.eu. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Paul will take over and coordinate the Party Facts project. Over the last year, he has added most of the new datasets, driven the agenda and responded to questions and requests. Holger and Sven will support him conceptually and with the technical infrastructure.
We have archived the first 2020 version at the Party Facts Dataverse. The version adds eight datasets, about 5600 external parties and 470 core parties. The following datasets have been added:
The following dataset have been updated:
Bederke, Paul, Holger Döring and Sven Regel. "Party Facts – Version 2020a", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QHJLQS, Harvard Dataverse. V1, UNF:6:7o/FN0i192ueKVS2vqGi5w== [fileUNF]
We have added parties from the Roll Call Votes in the European Parliament dataset.
Hix, Simon, Abdul G. Noury, and Gérard Roland. 2007. Democratic Politics in the European Parliament. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
We have updated and linked parties from the ParlSpeech V2 data set.
Rauh, Christian and Jan Schwalbach. 2020. "The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies". Harvard Dataverse. V1. doi: 10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN
We have added parties from the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey 2018 (POPPA) dataset.
Meijers, Maurits and Andrej Zaslove. 2020. "Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey 2018 (POPPA)". Harvard Dataverse. V1. doi: 10.7910/DVN/8NEL7B
We have added parties from Laver/Hunt (1992).
Laver, Michael, and W. Ben Hunt. 1992. Policy and Party Competition. New York: Routledge.
Many thanks to Ken Benoit (London School of Economics) for providing the dataset.
We have added parties from The PopuList dataset.
Matthijs Rooduijn et al. 2019. “The PopuList: An Overview of Populist, Far Right, Far Left and Eurosceptic Parties in Europe.” popu-list.org.
We have added and linked parties from the Latinobarómetro 1995 – 2018 public opinion survey.
Corporación Latinobarómetro. 2019. "Latinobarómetro 1995 – 2018", www.latinobarometro.org
We have added and linked parties from the Parties, Institutions and Preferences (PIP) dataset.
Jahn, Detlef, Nils Düpont, Sven Kosanke, and Christoph Oberst together with Thomas Behm and Martin Rachuj. 2018. “PIP – Parties, Institutions & Preferences: PIP Collection [Version 2018-02].” Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Greifswald.
We have added parties from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · en.wikipedia.org
Data is extracted from Infobox and Wikidata for Party Facts core parties based on the Wikipedia url.
See also — Herrmann, Michael, and Holger Döring. 2019. “Party Positions from Wikipedia Classifications of Party Ideology.” osf.io/evxn6
Paul Bederke has been activly involved in Party Facts over the last months and has provided many of the recent additions to the project. He has now fully joined the project.
We have added and linked parties from the book 'Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe' (Mudde 2007)
Mudde, C. (2007). Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511492037
We have archived the second 2019 version at the Party Facts Dataverse. The version adds five datasets, about 2900 external parties and 500 core parties. The following datasets have been added:
We have also updated the ParlGov parties. This includes all parties from the EP elections and the parties recently added to ParlGov.
Bederke, Paul, Holger Döring and Sven Regel. 2019. "Party Facts – Version 2019b". Harvard Dataverse. V1. UNF:6:zgOYWJG/AOl11ew88+IMgg== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/UUMC31
We have updated and linked parties from the ParlGov project. It includes all parties from the 2019 EP election and the parties recently added to ParlGov.
We have added and linked parties from the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS).
CCS 2016. Comparative Candidates Survey Module I – 2005-2013 [Dataset – cumulative file]. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne, 2016.
CCS 2018. Comparative Candidates Survey Wave II – 2013-2018 [Dataset – cumulative file]. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne, 2018. doi: 10.23662/FORS-DS-886-2
We have added and linked parties from the CSES Integrated Module Dataset (IMD).
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (www.cses.org). CSES INTEGRATED MODULE DATASET (IMD) [dataset and documentation]. December 4, 2018 version. doi: 10.7804/cses.imd.2018-12-04
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (www.cses.org). CSES INTEGRATED MODULE DATASET (IMD) [CODEBOOK PART 3: PARTIES/COALITIONS AND LEADERS]. December 4, 2018 version. doi: 10.7804/cses.imd.2018-12-04.
UPDATE · Aug. 2019
For each election, the nine most relevant parties according to the CSES are included as long as they comply with the coding rules of Party Facts. Some countries were missing in an earlier version, due to an error in our import script.
We have added and linked parties from the Members and Activists of Political Parties (MAPP) Dataset.
van Haute, Emilie, & Paulis, Emilien. (2016). MAPP Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.61234
We have added and linked parties from the Integrated Party Organization Dataset (IPOD).
Giger, Nathalie and Gijs Schumacher. 2015. "Integrated Party Organization Dataset (IPOD)". Harvard Dataverse. V1. doi: 10.7910/DVN/PE8TWP,
We have added and linked parties from the euandi (General Population Survey) dataset.
Trechsel, Alexander H., Diego Garzia and De Sio, Lorenzo (2015): "euandi (General Population Survey): User Profiles in the 2014 European Elections". GESIS Data Archive. Cologne. ZA5970 Data file Version 2.0.0, doi: 10.4232/1.12246
We have archived the first 2019 version at the Party Facts Dataverse. The version adds six datasets, about 2900 external parties and 400 core parties. The following datasets have been added:
Change in Source of Leader Support (CHISOLS)
Latin American Electronic Data Archive (LAEDA)
Bederke, Paul, Holger Döring and Sven Regel. 2020. "Party Facts – Version 2019a". Harvard Dataverse. V1. UNF:6:tC+wuU8rgtphyPEAUNxkIQ== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/FTQAYT
We have added and linked parties from the Change in Source of Leader Support (CHISOLS) dataset.
Mattes, Michaela, Brett Ashley Leeds, and Naoko Matsumura. 2016. “Measuring Change in Source of Leader Support: The CHISOLS Dataset.” Journal of Peace Research 53(2): 259–67.
We have added and linked parties from the Global Elections Database.
Brancati, Dawn. 2018. Global Elections Database. New York: Global Elections Database, Date Accessed 11/03/2018.
We have updated and linked parties from the CHES 2017 Flash Survey.
Polk, Jonathan, Jan Rovny, Ryan Bakker, Erica Edwards, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Jelle Koedam, Filip Kostelka, Gary Marks, Gijs Schumacher, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Vachudova and Marko Zilovic. 2017. "Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data," Research & Politics (January-March): 1-9.
We have added and linked parties from Parties-PostYug: Data on parties, elections and governments in post-Yugoslav democracies
Todorić, Nikola, Holger Döring and Christina Zuber. 2018. "Parties-PostYug". Harvard Dataverse. V1. UNF:6:dkfn4zkZeFCdIU/oIZ9GOA== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/WWHXDY,
We have added and linked parties from the African Elections Database.
Nunley, A. (2012). African Elections Database. [online] Africanelections.tripod.com. Available at: http://africanelections.tripod.com/index.html [Accessed 24 Dec. 2018].
We have added and linked parties from the ParlSpeech data set.
Rauh, Christian, Pieter De Wilde, and Jan Schwalbach. 2017. ‘The ParlSpeech data set: Annotated full-text vectors of 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of seven European states’. Harvard Dataverse. V1. doi: 10.7910/DVN/E4RSP9
We have added and linked parties from the Latin American Electronic Data Archive.
Mustillo, Tom. 2012. “Latin American and Caribbean, Lower House Election Results, 1934-2010.” https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/17851 (November 1, 2018).
We have updated and linked parties from the Manifesto Project to release 2018b.
Volkens, Andrea / Krause, Werner / Lehmann, Pola / Matthieß, Theres / Merz, Nicolas / Regel, Sven / Weßels, Bernhard (2018): The Manifesto Data Collection. Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR). Version 2018b. Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). doi: 10.25522/manifesto.mpds.2018b
Döring, Holger, and Sven Regel. 2019. “Party Facts: A Database of Political Parties Worldwide:” Party Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068818820671 (January 7, 2019).
We have published Version 2018 at the Party Facts Dataverse. This is the version we present in the forthcoming Party Politics article.
Döring, Holger and Sven Regel. 2018. "Party Facts – Version 2018". Harvard Dataverse. V1. UNF:6:yRTPpkJTKEbRopTEUFmmPg== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/EIAMPN
Döring, Holger, and Sven Regel. forthcoming. “Party Facts: A Platform for Collaborative Data Collection on Political Parties.” Party Politics.
The Party Facts page is public now.
We have now completed a public version of the Party Facts webpage. It provides access to all core parties and to party information from most external datasets .
Registered users can also access all user activity and datasets that are included preliminary, temporarily or for testing.
Today, an article introducing Party Facts was accepted at Party Politics.
Döring, Holger, and Sven Regel. forthcoming. “Party Facts: A Platform for Collaborative Data Collection on Political Parties.” Party Politics.
We have added and linked parties from Jennings/Wlezien (2018). – see also Party Facts Data
Jennings, Will, and Christopher Wlezien. 2018. “Election Polling Errors across Time and Space.” Nature Human Behaviour 2(4): 276–83.
Jennings, Will. 2017. "Replication Data for: Election Polling Errors across Time and Space". Harvard Dataverse. V2. UNF:6:fNeyt86bIJtgIJnhkzydLA== [fileUNF] — doi: 10.7910/DVN/8421DX
We recently completed adding about 1700 parties with more than 5% vote share from the DPI data.
Thanks to Fatemah Soleiman and Paul Bederke for the hard work.
The Database of Political Institutions 2015 (with P. Keefer and C. Scartascini). Inter-American Development Bank (2016). Updated version of Thorsten Beck, George Clarke, Alberto Groff, Philip Keefer, and Patrick Walsh, 2001. "New tools in comparative political economy: The Database of Political Institutions."15:1, 165-176 (September), World Bank Economic Review.
We have updated and linked parties from the ParlGov project. It includes all parties from the 2018 stable release and parties recently added to ParlGov.
Döring, Holger and Philip Manow. 2018. Parliaments and governments database (ParlGov): Information on parties, elections and cabinets in modern democracies. Development version.
We have updated and linked parties from the Manifesto Project to release 2018a.
Volkens, Andrea / Lehmann, Pola / Matthieß, Theres / Merz, Nicolas / Regel, Sven / Weßels, Bernhard (2018): The Manifesto Data Collection. Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR). Version 2018a. Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). doi: 10.25522/manifesto.mpds.2018a
We updated the webpage to Django 1.11 and Python 3.6. Updating the webpage from Python 2.7 to 3.6 was some work and led to changes in the implementation of the backend. Let us know if you run into issues.
We are working on Party Facts at the WZB in Berlin and want to update and consolidate the codebase. The changes we implement will not change the layout und user interface of the Party Facts webpage. Our revisions are mainly an effort to provide a long term stable version of the Party Facts projects as it is currently implemented.
We have updated and linked the party list from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) to release 11 published in May 2018.
Kollman, Ken, Allen Hicken, Daniele Caramani, David Backer, and David Lublin. 2018. “Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA). 2018 Version (20180507). Produced and Distributed by Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.”
We have added and linked parties from the Afrobarometer.
Afrobarometer: Merged Round 6 data (36 countries) (2016)
http://afrobarometer.org/data/merged-data
We have added and linked parties from the World Values Survey.
WORLD VALUES SURVEY 1981-2014 LONGITUDINAL AGGREGATE v.20150418. World Values Survey Association (www.worldvaluessurvey.org). Aggregate File Producer: JDSystems, Madrid SPAIN.
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWVL.jsp
We have revised the import scripts for the European Social Survery (ESS). Now, we import only the parties from the vote intention questions ("prtvt"). The ESS import folder on our Github page provides further detail.
We have also linked all ESS parties.
Several of the small parties were removed during the new import. Backups of previous imports are kept at the Github page.
At Konstanz University, Holger has worked with Christina Zuber and Nikola Todorić on a small project about partisan dynamcis in Southeast Europe.
In the project, Nikola has updated and completed the Party Facts data for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia. It know includes all parties with 2% vote share and party changes since the 1990s.
We have updated and linked the party list from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) to Release 10 published in May 2017.
Kollman, K., Hicken, A., Caramani, D., Backer, D., & Lublin, D. (2017). Constituency-level elections archive [data file and codebook]. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan [producer and distributor].
We have updated and linked the party list from the EPAC dataset and added parties from the second round of the expert survey.
Thanks to Annika Stein and Christina Zuber (University of Konstanz) for their support.
Szöcsik, Edina, and Christina Isabel Zuber. 2015. “EPAC – A New Dataset on Ethnonationalism in Party Competition in 22 European Democracies.” Party Politics 21(1): 153–60.
We have added and linked parties from the Political Party Database.
Thomas Poguntke, Susan Scarrow and Paul Webb. 2017. “Political Party Database Round 1a”. 10.7910/DVN/0NM7KZ
Poguntke, Thomas et al. 2016. “Party Rules, Party Resources and the Politics of Parliamentary Democracies: How Parties Organize in the 21st Century.” Party Politics 22(6): 661–78.
We have updated and linked the party list from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) to Release 9 published in October 2016.
Kollman, K., Hicken, A., Caramani, D., Backer, D., & Lublin, D. (2016). Constituency-level elections archive [data file and codebook]. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan [producer and distributor].
We have updated the party list from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) to the recently published Release 8. This new release includes a spreadsheet ("clea_20160523_appendix_II.xlsx") with information about all parties in CLEA that forms the basis of the import.
Kollman, K., Hicken, A., Caramani, D., Backer, D., & Lublin, D. (2016). Constituency-level elections archive [data file and codebook]. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan [producer and distributor].
Holger presented Party Facts at GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne. We had a really good discussion about the project and challenges to modern data collection.
Ann-Kathrin Reinl from GESIS Cologne has provided to us a list of political parties form the European Parliament Election Study 2014 linked with the CHES party IDs. We have now included the respective party data in Party Facts. Many thanks to Ann-Kathrin for providing the linked data.
Schmitt, Hermann, Sebastian A. Popa, Sara B. Hobolt, and Eftichia Teperoglou. 2014. “European Parliament Election Study 2014, Voter Study. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5160 Data File Version 2.0.0, doi: 10.4232/1.12300
Schmitt, Hermann, Sara Hobolt, and Sebastian Adrian Popa. 2015. “Does Personalization Increase Turnout? Spitzenkandidaten in the 2014 European Parliament Elections.” European Union Politics 16(3): 347–68.
We have added and linked the parties from Thomas (1975).
Thomas, John Clayton. 1975. “The Decline of Ideology in Western Political Parties: A Study of Changing Policy Orientations.” London; Beverly Hills, CA. Sage Professional Papers in Contemporary Political Sociology.
We have completed a version of the webpage that is feature complete. This version includes everthing that we believe is necessary and that we were able to complete with our resources. It includes a lot of suggestions and improvements from linking the parties in the M8 project over the last months.
You can also consider this a "beta version". We will not add any major features over the next months but focus on publishing some project publications and fixing minor issues we run into.
We have added an experimental feature that allows adding predecessor and successor parties for every Party Facts core party. At this point this is just the respective user interface and database modification.
We include a few party changes but for most of the core parties this information has yet to be added in the future. The German Greens provide an example.
We have updated the party list from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) to the 1999-2014 trend file and the 2014 CHES candidate survey.
We have added and linked parties from Janda (1980)
Janda, Kenneth. 1980. Political Parties: A Cross-National Survey. New York, NY: The Free Press.
An initial version of the Codebook is now available. Thanks to Phillip Hocks, and Jan Schwalbach for the hard work. We keep the original version of the codebook in a Google Docs document and import it to the Party Facts page after updating it.
We spend a day at the WZB in Berlin to push our work for a first version of Party Facts. Our goal is to complete the linking of all major datasets, to clean-up the core party lists and to fix a few open issues on the webpage.
We added and linked parties from the European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook (EJPR PDY).
Kevin Deegan-Krause has significantly contributed to our efforts to integrate the EJPR PDY parties by extracting core information about political parties from the EJPR PDY Excel tables.
Holger is spending four weeks at the Center for Political Studies (CPS) in Ann Arbor to work on Party Facts and to collaborate with members from CLEA.
The five month project funded by a small research grant from the University of Bremen has started today. We will work with three RAs to complete an initial version of Party Facts and cooperate with members from CLEA and EJPR-PDY.
We added parties from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA). The amount of parties CLEA includes is tremendous – allmost 10,000 in Appendix II. For the import we selected those parties that won more that 2.0% of the national vote. Including parties from CLEA has significantly increased the number of countries we cover.
Kollman, Ken, Allen Hicken, Daniele Caramani, David Backer, and David Lublin. 2014. “Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA). Produced and Distributed by Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.” Retrieved (www.electiondataarchive.org).
Jan Fischer completed his internship at the Centre for Social Policy Research (ZeS). Among others he spend some time on the Party Facts project helping us to clean up some of the sources and working on the ESS parties export.
We have added the parties from the PPMD expert survey.
Benoit, Kenneth and Michael Laver. 2006. Party Policy in Modern Democracies. London; New York: Routledge. Retrieved.
Holger won a small research grant from the University of Bremen. The grant will fund working on the project with three RAs from August to December 2015 and a research stay at the Center for Political Studies (CPS) in Ann Arbor.
We reserved a few days to program on the Party Facts project. Our time was spend on some maintenance work, fixing open issues and polishing the user interface. The user experience should be more smooth now but a few issues remain before we announce the project publicly.
We have added parties from the Ray (1999) expert survey.
Ray, Leonard. 1999. “Measuring Party Orientations towards European Integration: Results from an Expert Survey.” European Journal of Political Research 36(2):283–306.
We have added the parties from the EPAC expert survey (Szöcsik and Zuber 2012) and Christina has kindly provided most of the links to the Party Facts parties.
Sven presented Party Facts at the ECPR General Conference 2014 in Glasgow.
We have added parties from the Huber/Inglehart (1995) expert survey and linked them with information from the ParlGov project.
Huber, John D. and Ronald Inglehart. 1995. “Expert Interpretations of Party Space and Party Locations in 42 Societies.” Party Politics 1(1):73–111.
We spend two days on a sprint in Bremen. There are some considerable improvements to the page but also some open issues left that we will fix over the next days.
Rohrschneider, Robert, and Stephen Whitefield. 2012. The Strain of Representation: How Parties Represent Diverse Voters in Western and Eastern Europe. Oxford University Press. -----, ‘An Expert Survey of 208 Parties in Europe’.
We have imported a list of parties from the Kitschelt (2013) expert survey on leadership accountability. This information has allowed us to significantly extend the number of countries we cover.
Herbert Kitschelt, 2013. Dataset of the Democratic Accountability and Linkages Project (DALP). Duke University. web.duke.edu/democracy.
Today, we presented Party Facts and a paper introducing the project at the “Big Data? New Data!“ workshop in Duisburg-Essen.
We have added the party list from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) and linked the parties with the MARPOR IDs included in the CHES party list and with ParlGov IDs. Some remaining parties need to be linked in the online interface.
Hooghe, Liesbet et al. 2010. “Reliability and Validity of Measuring Party Positions: The Chapel Hill Expert Surveys of 2002 and 2006.” European Journal of Political Research 49(5):687–703.
Holger will be a panelist at the MPSA roundtable on "Coordinating Electoral and Institutional Data Assets for Data-Intensive Research: Developing a Vision for the Future", Saturday, April 5, 8:30-10:10, MPSA Conference Chicago. The roundtable discusses some of the challenges that Party Facts aims at addressing. Thanks to Thomas Mustillo (Purdue University) for organizing the roundtable.
Today, we gave a brief introduction to the Party Facts project to some scholars of the political science department of the University of Gothenburg.
We have set up partyfacts.org as our new home address. At this stage, the page just redirects to the prototype at partyfacts.herokuapp.com.
We have decided to rename the project into Party Facts. Our goal is to provide a modern almanac about political parties recorded in social science datasets and we aim at moving beyond simply matching Party Codes.
Holger and Sven met at the WZB and discussed some of the open issues that need to be fixed before we invite some beta testers.
Over the weekend, we have completed a prototype of the party mapping page. It includes all of the basic functionality we want to include. Registered users can now map, add and edit parties. There is also some documentation of user activities. The page is still buggy, with many layout glitches but it provides a far better example of what we are aiming at.
We have imported a list of parties from the seminal Mackie/Rose election data. This information will allow us to significantly extend the period we cover.
Mackie, Thomas, and Richard Rose. 1991. The International Almanac of Electoral History. Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly.
We added the parties from the Parties and Presidents in Latin America (PPLA) dataset. Hopefully, this will widen the geographical scope of our project.
Wiesehomeier, Nina, and Kenneth Benoit. 2009. “Presidents, Parties and Policy Competition.” The Journal of Politics 71(4):1435–47.
We talked to some colleagues at the ECPR General Conference 2013 in Bordeaux about the feasibility of our project. As always: many nice ideas, some encouragement but also the obvious fact that we need to complete the prototype.
This week, we aim at completing our minimum viable prototype and hope to launch a beta version.
Another short project meeting at the WZB today, summarizing what we have completed so far and defining open tasks for a beta lauch.
Holger attended a small workshop on cabinet formation in Lund, organized by Hanna Bäck (Lund University), Torbjörn Bergman and Johan Hellström (both Umeå University). Over the workshop, we also discussed the benefits of a party codes project. ERD will probably be the first external dataset that is completely linked to the party codes project.
We had a small project meeting. Annika, Holger, Pola and Sven agreed to launch a joined project on linking party codes. This is just a side project but we are interested in trying to pool our knowledge and data on political parties.
We added the parties from the first party expert survey conducted four decades ago.
Morgan, Michael-John. 1976. “The Modelling of Governmental Coalition Formation: A Policy-Based Approach with Interval Measurement.” University of Michigan.
Hans-Dieter Klingemann organized a small workshop at the WZB to discuss the feasibility of a project linking various information about political parties. Holger and Sven prepared a short presentation with a prototype for such a project. Mark Kayser (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin) provided some ideas about the institutional structure of such a project.
We agreed to focus on a minimum viable prototype first and aim at organising an international workshop with all stakeholders once the prototype has been in completed.
We added the parties from the ERD Party Codebook. They have yet to be completly linked.
Andersson, Staffan, Torbjörn Bergman, and Svante Ersson. 2014. ‘Andersson, Staffan; Bergman, Torbjörn & Ersson, Svante (2014). “The European Representative Democracy Data Archive, Release 3”. Main Sponsor: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (In2007-0149:1-E). [www.erdda.se]’.
The first online version of the party codes project is available at partycodes.herokuapp.com.
Holger and Sven met at the WZB and defined the potential layout of the party codes project.
We have implemented a first local version of the project.
At a workshop of the Policy Votes Project and after a few follow up emails the idea was formed to explore the potential of a project that links party codes across political science data sets.