Mapping Policy Preferences II

Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments in Eastern Europe, European Union, and OECD 1990-2003

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

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:23rd Nov '06

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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.

...a major new publication for this very significant project. * Political Studies Review *

ISBN: 9780199296316

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 25mm

Weight: 624g

304 pages