Mapping policy preferences II : estimates for parties, electors, and governments in Eastern Europe, European Union, and OECD 1990-2003

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…