Jonathan Polk
Professor
Complexity in the European Party Space : Exploring Dimensionality with Experts
Författare
Summary, in English
Does the n-issue space in domestic European polities reduce to one, two, or more dimensions? How do these dimensions relate to each other? More broadly, how does dimensionality vary across countries? We attempt to advance our understanding of political contestation in Europe by mapping the dimensionality of the political space across 24 countries using Chapel Hill expert survey (CHES) data. We test how well different models of the European political space fit the CHES data and find that three-dimensional models best fit the data in all countries. However, there is considerable cross-national variation in how the three dimensions relate to one another. Given this, we present a new measure of dimensional complexity that captures the degree to which these three dimensions are related. In so doing, we improve our understanding of the complexity of the political space in European countries.
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
219-245
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Union Politics
Volym
13
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Political Science
Nyckelord
- dimensionality
- European politics
- expert surveys
- party politics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1465-1165