Mapping Policy Preferences II

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 GroupLecturer in Politics, Queen Mary, University of LondonResearch 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

• PART I: PARTIES AND REPRESENTATION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN UNION ; 1. Uniquely! Over-Time Mapping of Party Policy Movements in Central and Eastern Europe 1990-2003 ; 2. Beyond the Left-Right Dimension: Policy Profiles and Programmatic Coherence of Party Groupings in the European Parliament ; 3. A Common Space for Electoral Communication? Comparing Party and Voter Placements on a Left-Right Continuum in Western Europe and the CEE ; PART II: METHODOLOGY AND MEASUREMENT ; 4. Evaluating Validity with the Standard Left-Right Scale: Matching Measurements to Conceptual Intentions ; 5. Information or Error? Reliability of Policy Time series ; 6. Quantifying Policy Emphases in Texts Using the CMP Approach: Comparisons with Alternative Approaches. ; 7. Exploiting Manifesto Estimates of the Median for Multi-Level Analysis: Relating Electoral, Legislative and Government Policy Preferences ; 8. Using the Data

...a major new publication for this very significant project.