Helping Citizens to Locate Political Parties in the Policy Space: A Dataset for 
the 2014 Elections to the European Parliament

Gemenis, Kostas; Mendez, Fernando; Wheatley, Jonathan

doi:10.1163/24523666-00401002

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Helping Citizens to Locate Political Parties in the Policy Space: A Dataset for the 2014 Elections to the European Parliament

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Gemenis, Kostas
Politische Ökonomie von Wachstumsmodellen, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Gemenis, K., Mendez, F., & Wheatley, J. (2019). Helping Citizens to Locate Political Parties in the Policy Space: A Dataset for the 2014 Elections to the European Parliament. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(1), 13-26. doi:10.1163/24523666-00401002.

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The authors present a dataset that contains the positions of 231 political parties across 28 countries on 30 policy issues that were considered salient for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. The party position estimates were originally used in a voter information tool which compared the policy preferences of citizens to those of political parties. The paper discusses the estimation method in the context of the literature on estimating party positions, outlines the coding methodology, and introduces the value of the dataset for third-party users interested in studying political participation and representation.