Reliability and Validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill Expert Surveys on Party Positioning

Liesbet Hooghe (1) , Ryan Bakker , Anna Brigevich , Catherine de Vries (2) , Erica Edwards (3) , Gary Marks (1) , Jan Rovny (4) , Marco Steenbergen (5) , Milada Anna Vachudova

1 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
2 Universiteit Leiden [Leiden]
3 Duke University [Durham]
4 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)
5 Department for Political Science

This research note reports on the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys (CHES), which measure national party positioning on European integration, ideology, and several European Union (EU) and non-EU policies. The reliability of expert judgments is examined and the CHES data are cross-validated with data from the Comparative Manifesto Project, the 2003 Benoit-Laver expert survey and the 2002 Rohrschneider-Whitefield survey. The dataset is available on the CHES website.

Domains: Political science

Liesbet Hooghe, Ryan Bakker, Anna Brigevich, Catherine de Vries, Erica Edwards, et al.. Reliability and Validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill Expert Surveys on Party Positioning. European Journal of Political Research, 2010, 49 (5), pp.687-703. ⟨10.1111/j.1475-6765.2009.01912.x⟩. ⟨hal-02182423⟩