Expert surveys (PPMD)

    The Party Policy in Modern Democracies (PPMD) dataset contains expert survey scores of the policy positions of political parties in 47 countries. It accompanies the book of the same title, by Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver (London: Routledge, 2006).

    Data are available from the project website.

    Related publications

    1. 2009. “Presidents, Parties And Policy Competition.” Journal of Politics 71(4): 1435–1447 (with Nina Wiesehomeier).

    2. 2007. “Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis.” Electoral Studies 26: 90–107 (with Michael Laver).

    3. 2006. “Policy Competition in the 2002 French Legislative and Presidential Elections.” European Journal of Political Research 45(4): 667–697 (with Michael Laver and Nicolas Sauger).

    4. 2005. “Estimating Party Policy Positions: Japan in Comparative Context.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 6(2): 187–209 (with Michael Laver).

    5. 2006. Party Policy in Modern Democracies. London: Routledge (with Michael Laver).

    6. 2004. Party Policy in Modern Democracies. Expert survey scores of policy positions of political parties in 47 countries. Accompanies book of same title. Available from https://www.tcd.ie/PoliticalScience/ppmd/ (with Michael Laver).