Mapping Policy Preferences II: Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments in Eastern Europe, European Union, and OECD 1990-2003

Hans-Dieter Klingemann · Andrea Volkens · Judith Bara · Ian Budge · Michael D. McDonald

Nov 2006 · OUP Oxford

About this ebook

This book is probably the most important source of evidence published up to now on the consolidation of democracy in Eastern Europe. It provides estimates of party positions, voter preferences and government policy from election programmes collected systematically for 51 countries from 1990 onwards. Time-series are presented in the text. This also reports party life histories (essential to over time analyses) and provides updated and newly validated vote statistics. All this information and much more is available on the devoted website described in the book. The final chapter gives instructions on how to access the data on your own computer. For comparative purposes, similar estimates of policy and preferences are given for CEE, OECD and EU countries. These estimates update the prize-winning data set covered in Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998 - also published by OUP. A must-buy for all commentators, students and analysts of democracy, in Eastern Europe and the world.

About the author

Ian Budge has been a leading member of the Department of Government, University of Essex, and the European Consortium for Political Research, for 30 years. He has held visiting positions in the USA, Australia, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, and has authored or edited some 25 books and 80 monographs in leading journals, some prize-winning. Judith Bara: Founder member of Manifesto Research Group Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary, University of London Research Fellow in Government, University of Essex, specialising in analysis of political text relating to policy and public opinion. Contributed to many books and journals on these topics