Chapel Hill Expert Survey

We thank the editorial team and referees at @electoralstudies.bsky.social, excellent research assistants, and most of all the hundreds of experts that completed our surveys and helped generate this data set.
The paper is here: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
And the data can be accessed at chesdata.eu. 7/

European democracy in action? The 2024 European Parliament elections The 2024 European Parliament elections occurred in the context of mounting internal and external pressures on the European Union, including democratic backsliding, rising radical right influence an...

Our short article pairs nicely with @sarahobolt.bsky.social et al’s introductory essay for the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on the 2024 EP elections: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
And, as in previous waves, our teams have coordinated on question wording to facilitate party-voter comparison 6/

The note further illustrates that these measures of horizontal accountability appear closely related to the transnational cleavage, as the party families at the pole of this divide (greens and the radical right) are also furthest from one another on the measure of horizontal accountability. 5/

The 2024 CHES included for the first time questions to measure positions on executive constraints & judicial independence, key features of horizontal accountability. Here, the rad right party family stands out as much less likely to support constraints on executives & judicial independence 4/

We further report a sharp and sustained increase in the correlation between party positions on European integration and party stances on immigration, which indicates the emergence and durability of a transnational cleavage in European party politics. 3/

Within the note we show that while the economic left-right positioning of the radical right party family has not shifted markedly to the left overall, the economic positioning of parties within the family has become more diverse over time. 2/

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Here’s a summary thread:
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How much do Britons and political scientists - via @chesdata.bsky.social - agree on parties' place on the left-right spectrum?

Green: -55 Britons vs -59 experts
Labour: -36 vs -24
Lib Dems: -23 vs -23
Cons: +51 vs +53
Reform UK: +69 vs +85

Scale where -100 is very left and +100 is very right

A bonus to being a member of the @chesdata.bsky.social team is being involved in *super* cool projects, like this one - led by @ndelacerda.bsky.social and just out in @thejop.bsky.social 👇

The CHES is a survey of national party experts to place parties on political dimensions. It is generally considered the gold standard of comparative party research.
The new data has just come you. You can check it out with the link below. Big thank you to the team!
bsky.app/profile/ches...

The @chesdata.bsky.social dataset is one of the most comprehensive sources on party ideology and positioning. It offers valuable insights into the evolution of political parties from 1999 (the first wave) to the present.

Europe's political parties in the new CHES data @chesdata.bsky.social at a glance: the political compass space. With apologies to Iceland, which didn't fit onto the chart

In this space, the party systems fall into two broad patterns

1) 🟦 vs 🟩

2) 🟥 vs 🟨

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We will compile the 1999-2024 trend file soon, but in the meantime, you can merge with 1999-2019 now. In the 2024, we added several non-CHES variables into the regular dataset (vote share, family, etc.).

We are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website.

Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!

‼️ O, Canada is now in CHES!

The data include party position estimates for federal parties in Canada + parties in Ontario and Quebec. It's also super easy to combine with other @chesdata.bsky.social data to compare positions with positions of parties in other countries!

Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

Check out the latest addition to the CHES family, CHES-Canada 2023: www.chesdata.eu/chescanada

Thanks to @jellekoedam.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social for their work on this project!

More news to follow soon on CHES-Europe 2024!

Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos

Check out this awesome postdoc opportunity with my friend @jonathanpolk.bsky.social at Lund: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

So much great work to be done in this area and working with Jon would be fantastic!

@chesdata.bsky.social is an interesting data source for information about political parties. I made a small quiz website with its data for the upcoming german election:
wahlquiz.de/ches/
When can I update it with 2024 data?

Soon! We plan to release in February.

If you’re thinking about the upcoming German election, check out this data viz created by Tom Theile, which allows you to find which parties you’re closest to on several issues (based on CHES data): https://wahlquiz.de/ches/en.html

Note that EU support ranges from Euroskeptical (0) to pro-EU (6) and lrgen refers to the general left-right ideological dimension, ranging from 0 (left-wing) to 10 (right-wing).

The 2024 CHES survey is well on its way to finalizing, and we hope to release it soon after closing the survey. In a preliminary look of western Europe, notice the continued presence of the inverted U of EU support and left-right.

The inverted U persists in Western Europe.

Also, new @chesdata.bsky.social coming to a website near you (www.chesdata.eu) soon!!

While CHES 2024 is in the field, check out the shiny apps showcasing our data at chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/

Suggestions welcome for new off the shelf graphs, @sethkjolly.bsky.social will create some new ones next spring with the new data!

CHES party positions are now also available for Canada!

Thank you @rdassonneville.bsky.social and
@chesdata.bsky.social for a great collaboration.

See 🧵 below for more!

Check out the latest from the @chesdata.bsky.social Europe team: doi.org/10.1177/1465...

Using expert data on party positions, we argue that perceived threat and ideology explains party positions on support for Ukraine.

The @chesdata.bsky.social ches_data
team is happy to present our newest paper in
EUP: The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#polisky #EUsky

The 2024 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis will soon be open for applications. We've got a great program of classes and, of course, our world famous social program as well. Lots of new and exciting stuff going on. Watch this space for updates.

#ESS2024 #BestNerdySummerCamp

If you use CHES data in your polisky research or public facing work, let us know and we will share it and repost it!