Research Catalog

Title

Mapping policy preferences : estimates for parties, electors, and governments, 1945-1998 / Ian Budge ... [et al.].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Budge, Ian

Description

x, 274 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Summary

• "This book enriches and empowers its readers. It enriches them by giving them the most detailed and extensive data available on the polices and preferences of key democratic actors - parties, governments and electors in 25 democracies over the post-war period. Estimates are provided for every election and government of the post-war period and derive from the programmes, manifestos and platforms of parties and governments themselves. Thus, they form a uniquely authoritative source provided through the labour of a team of international scholars over 25 years. The book empowers readers by providing these estimates on the CD-ROM contained in it. The printed text provides documentation and suggested uses for data along with much other background information.
• Indispensable for any serious discussion of democratic politics, the book provides necessary information for political scientists, policy analysts, comparativists, socialists, and economists. A must for every social science library - private as well as academic or public."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• 1945-1989
• Geschichte 1945-1998
• Political planning
• Policy sciences
• Democracy
• Political parties
• World politics > 1945-
• World politics > 1945-1989

Genre/Form

CD-ROMs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements: Windows 95 or above, Netscape 4.0 or above required; Mac OS, Netscape 3.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0 or above required; CD-ROM drive.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: content analysis and political texts / Ian Budge and Judith Bara -- Finally! Comparative over-time mapping of party policy movement / Ian Budge and Hans Dieter-Klingemann -- Manifesto-based research: a critical review / Ian Budge and Judith Bara -- Theory and measurement of party policy positions / Ian Budge -- Quantifying the election programmes: coding procedures and controls / Andrea Volkens -- Checking the party policy estimates: reliability / Derek J. Hearl -- Checking the party policy estimates: convergent validity / Michael D. McDonald and Silvia M. Mendes -- Using manifesto estimates to validate computerized analyses / Judith Bara -- Extending party estimates to governments and electors / Hee-Min Kim and Richard C. Fording -- Approaching the data / Eric Tanenbaum.

ISBN

0199244006

LCCN

^^2001031166

OCLC

• 46729125
• SCSB-11659561

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library