"A Step Closer to a Transnational Party System" Replication Files

Version
1
Resource Type
Dataset
Creator
  • Katsanidou, Alexia (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
  • Lefkofridi, Zoe (University of Salzburg)
Publication Date
2018
Classification
  • ZA:
    • Political Parties, Organizations
Description

  • Abstract

    These are the replication files for the artile A Step Closer to a Transnational Party System? published in Journal of Common Market Studies https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12755. The data used are the EU Profiler and EUandI party data both to be found at GESIS: http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.11689 and http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12138 These replication files contain a file that adds to the above mentioned data the number of seats for each party in the European parliament, and a file that runs our analysis and creates our graphs for both election years 2009 and 2014. Abstract of the paper: At this stage of European integration and given the high degree of Europe’s politicization and salience caused by the crisis, representative democracy in the EU can only function if parties mobilize beyond borders. We examine whether European Party Groups (EPG) in the European Parliament (EP) offer distinct policy alternatives and how coherent these are. We use party position data collected by two Voting Advice Applications designed for the 2009 and 2014 EP elections respectively (EUProfiler and Euandi). We find evidence of competition between EPGs groups on both left right issues and European integration; on the latter issue, there is greater differentiation within the anti-EU camp. Coherence within EPG exists, though it varies across issues, EPGs and between election years examined: it is greater on European integration than on left-right issues and it is particularly high for right wing Eurosceptics though for most parties it deteriorates between 2009 and 2014.
Sampled Universe
Political Parties
Data and File Information
    • File Name: final_2009_dataset_creation.do
      File Format: text/x-stata-syntax
      File Size: 34073
      Data Fingerprint: 97a02dd898339852c58a2fad0312c3bc
      Method Fingerprint: MD5
    • File Name: final_2014_dataset_creation_file.do
      File Format: text/x-stata-syntax
      File Size: 38171
      Data Fingerprint: 578feef1a162436d9293eb3167293ae9
      Method Fingerprint: MD5
    • File Name: Analysis_2009.do
      File Format: text/x-stata-syntax
      File Size: 8951
      Data Fingerprint: 1dddb088c9f3d229ada333839fd7e346
      Method Fingerprint: MD5
    • File Name: Analysis_2014.do
      File Format: text/x-stata-syntax
      File Size: 11036
      Data Fingerprint: 83f87f663e67d05d93a2b3e06ab55484
      Method Fingerprint: MD5
    • File Name: Appendix_Online_Only_Supplement_Materials.pdf
      File Format: application/pdf
      File Size: 133825
      Data Fingerprint: f20bfe5ce929f1cdedf3f68c97383a27
      Method Fingerprint: MD5
Availability
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Rights
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Publications
  • A Step Closer to a Transnational Party System? Competition and Coherence in the 2009 and 2014 European Parliament in Journal of Common Market Studies;https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12755

Update Metadata: 2019-09-30 | Issue Number: 2 | Registration Date: 2018-11-14