Reliability and validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys on party positioning

By L. Hooghe, Ryan Bakker, Anna Brigevich, C. D. Vries, Erica E. Edwards, G. Marks, Jan Rovny, M. Steenbergen, M. Vachudova. 2010

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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.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Catchall or Catch and Release? The Electoral Consequences of Social Democratic Parties’ March to the Middle in Western Europe (2013, neutral): “For this reason, we also rely on the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES; Bakker et al., 2012; Hooghe et al., 2010; Steenbergen & Marks, 2007) as an alternative measure.”
Crowd-sourced Text Analysis: Reproducible and Agile Production of Political Data (2016, background): “10 They also correspond to dimensions covered by a series of expert surveys (Benoit and Laver 2006; Hooghe et al. 2010; Laver and Hunt 1992), allowing validation of estimates we derive against widely used independent estimates of the same quantities.”
Left-Authoritarians and Policy Representation in Western Europe: Electoral Choice across Ideological Dimensions (2014, methodology): “Similar divisions have been suggested by Inglehart (1977), Finer (1987), Flanagan (1987), Kitschelt (1994) and Hooghe et al. (2010).”
Issue Entrepreneurship and Multiparty Competition (2015, methodology): “EU issue salience for each party is measured in CHES by asking experts to evaluate “the relative importance of the issue in the party’s public stance” on a 5-point scale, ranging from European integration is of no importance, never mentioned by the party (1) to European integration is the most impor”