Chapel Hill Expert Survey

🧩 Do voters dislike parties that mix left and right positions? In ten countries, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, Patrick Fournier & @zeynsom.bsky.social find voters know less about such parties and like them less, in part because of the inconsistency itself. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Positional Blurring in Context: How #Dimensionality & #Ideology Constrain #Strategy By @ndelacerda.bsky.social & @jacobgunderson.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New with @jacobgunderson.bsky.social , in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social (open access): "Positional Blurring in Context." Europe's populist parties typically blur their economic platforms but stay sharp on cultural issues. Does that hold everywhere? 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

AfD’s huge gains in Saxony-Anhalt are the latest in a series of far-right electoral gains across Europe, while mainstream parties are struggling. 2027 brings major elections in 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸🇵🇱 Europe is heading towards a political stress test. How does this matter for the EU’s ability to act? 🧵 1/10

I'm thrilled to share the latest @chesdata.bsky.social paper "A Global Scale of Economic Left–Right Party Positions: Cross-National and Cross-Expert Perceptions of Party Placements", out now at JOP, where we compare expert ratings from Europe, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Canada, & the US.

❗The @chesdata.bsky.social team paper on the global economic left-right scale is now out in print at the JoP! Super happy to have contributed a tiny little bit to this huge effort by @ndelacerda.bsky.social, @rbakker.bsky.social and others!

Very happy to be a part of this great team with @ndelacerda.bsky.social, @rbakker.bsky.social, @sethkjolly.bsky.social, @jonathanpolk.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @jellekoedam.bsky.social, @palesl.bsky.social, and @jillesheppard.bsky.social.

At chesdata.eu, we had a minor update to the 1999-2024 trend file to correct the 2024 seat share variable (it was raw seats instead of share), so V2 is out now. Also, we added a new graph to CHES interactive chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/ that lets users look at change over time in a country!

At chesdata.eu, we had a minor update to the 1999-2024 trend file to correct the 2024 seat share variable (it was raw seats instead of share), so V2 is out now. Also, we added a new graph to CHES interactive chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/ that lets users look at change over time in a country!

Check out chesdata.eu for the 1999-2024 CHES trend file, along with individual year surveys with both means and expert-level datasets. We are also happy to release an updated CHES Shiny (CHES Interactive on the website) at chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/!

How much do Britons and political scientists - via @chesdata.bsky.social - agree on parties' place on the left-right spectrum? Green: -55 Britons vs -59 experts Labour: -36 vs -24 Lib Dems: -23 vs -23 Cons: +51 vs +53 Reform UK: +69 vs +85 Scale where -100 is very left and +100 is very right

A bonus to being a member of the @chesdata.bsky.social team is being involved in *super* cool projects, like this one - led by @ndelacerda.bsky.social and just out in @thejop.bsky.social 👇

The CHES is a survey of national party experts to place parties on political dimensions. It is generally considered the gold standard of comparative party research. The new data has just come you. You can check it out with the link below. Big thank you to the team! bsky.app/profile/ches...

The @chesdata.bsky.social dataset is one of the most comprehensive sources on party ideology and positioning. It offers valuable insights into the evolution of political parties from 1999 (the first wave) to the present.

Europe's political parties in the new CHES data @chesdata.bsky.social at a glance: the political compass space. With apologies to Iceland, which didn't fit onto the chart In this space, the party systems fall into two broad patterns 1) 🟦 vs 🟩 2) 🟥 vs 🟨 … 1/

‼️ O, Canada is now in CHES! The data include party position estimates for federal parties in Canada + parties in Ontario and Quebec. It's also super easy to combine with other @chesdata.bsky.social data to compare positions with positions of parties in other countries!

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

Check out the latest addition to the CHES family, CHES-Canada 2023: www.chesdata.eu/chescanada Thanks to @jellekoedam.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social for their work on this project! More news to follow soon on CHES-Europe 2024!

Check out this awesome postdoc opportunity with my friend @jonathanpolk.bsky.social at Lund: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... So much great work to be done in this area and working with Jon would be fantastic!

@chesdata.bsky.social is an interesting data source for information about political parties. I made a small quiz website with its data for the upcoming german election: wahlquiz.de/ches/ When can I update it with 2024 data?

If you’re thinking about the upcoming German election, check out this data viz created by Tom Theile, which allows you to find which parties you’re closest to on several issues (based on CHES data): https://wahlquiz.de/ches/en.html

The inverted U persists in Western Europe. Also, new @chesdata.bsky.social coming to a website near you (www.chesdata.eu) soon!!

While CHES 2024 is in the field, check out the shiny apps showcasing our data at chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/ Suggestions welcome for new off the shelf graphs, @sethkjolly.bsky.social will create some new ones next spring with the new data!

CHES party positions are now also available for Canada! Thank you @rdassonneville.bsky.social and @chesdata.bsky.social for a great collaboration. See 🧵 below for more!

Check out the latest from the @chesdata.bsky.social Europe team: doi.org/10.1177/1465... Using expert data on party positions, we argue that perceived threat and ideology explains party positions on support for Ukraine.

The @chesdata.bsky.social ches_data team is happy to present our newest paper in EUP: The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #polisky #EUsky

The 2024 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis will soon be open for applications. We've got a great program of classes and, of course, our world famous social program as well. Lots of new and exciting stuff going on. Watch this space for updates. #ESS2024 #BestNerdySummerCamp

If you use CHES data in your polisky research or public facing work, let us know and we will share it and repost it!

“Miles ahead of the rest”: honorary doctorates for two political scientists and an economist at Maastricht University With my take on the exceptional scholarship of Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks ➡️ www.observantonline.nl/english/Home...

The 2023 @ches_data on political parties’ support for Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion is freely available for download on our website at chesdata.eu/speedches. We thank the hundreds of respondents that provided their time and expertise, making this dataset possible.

Last week, we released a speed CHES dataset on European party positions towards Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Those data can be found at chesdata.eu/speedches. Our paper on how ideology shapes party support for Ukraine can also be found at chesdata.eu!

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Hi, can you add us to polisky! Already followed that feed.

We're new to bluesky! We will use this page to publicize our polisky work at chesdata.eu