# Party Positions on Immigration Supplementary material for: Ruedin, Didier and Laura Morales. 2019. “Estimating Party Positions on Immigration: Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Different Methods”. Party Politics. 25(3):303–14. doi:10.1177/1354068817713122 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1354068817713122 ## Supplement and Replication Material * supplement.pdf (supplement as PDF) * S1 Question wording in CMP * S2 Manifestos included and positions * S3 Instructions for selecting sections on immigration and integration * S4 Yoshikoder dictionary * S5 Alternative dictionaries * S6 Codebook for manual sentence-by-sentence coding * S7 Codebook for checklist * S8 Inter-coder reliability for checklist coding * S9 Variables in the data set and rescaling * S10 Reference texts * S11 Manifestos not mentioning immigration * S12 Associations between different methods of pooling expert surveys and manual coding * S13 Factor analysis on checklist dimensions * S14 Extended correlation table * S15 Principal component analysis on methods * S16 Correlations for Wordscores and Wordfish * S17 Associations by country * S18 Associations by country over time * S19 The effect of the length of the 'immigration' section on estimated positions * S20 Standard deviation by party position and method * S21 Standard deviation by section length * S22 OLS regression models of standard deviation * S23 CMP correlations * S24 Correlations as meta-analysis * S25 Figures and tables in the article * supplement.Rmd (supplement as Rmd source; note that there are many parts -- especially at the beginning of the document -- where numbers are handcoded. This was done to improve the PDF output. Replication code is included from p.22 onward). * combined.23.RData (replication data for R; conversion via "importing CSV to RData.R") * combined.23.csv (replication data) ## Data * allchecklists.csv (detailed scores of the checklist coding; n=287 manifestos coded) * manual-combined.csv (detailed scores of the manual coding; n=8,111 sentences coded; variables: NUM, SISSUE, POSIT, STATQUO, OBJACT, FRAME1, FRAME2). * aggregate-manual.R (R code for the aggregation by party and year) * aspects-from-manual.csv (variables: issue, frame, statquo, objact by party and year) * positions-by-issue-from-manual.csv (party positions by immigration and integration seaprately, by party and year) * positions-from-manual.csv (positions by party and year; variables: mean, SD, median, interpolated median, N of sentences, interpolated median with 3 categories) * sbs-detailed.csv (variables: mean, SD, median, interpolated median, number of sentences, plus positions by party and year) ## Additional Data Since publishing the article, we have coded additional manifestos, which are also included here on OSF. * sentence_coding_raw_combined.csv (and corresponding sentence_coding_raw_combined.ods; detailed scores of the manual sentence-by-sentence coding; n=9,147 sentences coded; variables: Country, Year, Party, Coder [number], Coder type [expert, project member, student assistant], Sentence number [NUM], SISSUE, POSIT, STATQUO, FRAME1, FRAME2, corresponding sentence [some cases only]) * allchecklists-29.csv (and corresponding allchecklists-29.xlsx; detailed scores of the checklist coding; n=442 manifestos coded) * wordcounts.csv (word count of the sections on migration; counted using 'wc -w') ## Sections on Migration The folder "Sections on Migration" contains the sections of the party manifestos that concern immigration and immigrant integration. Sentences were selected manually. The files should be named xx-YYYY-party-short.txt (although some names differ slightly). xx refers to the country, YYYY the year, the party is abbreviated, and "short" was added to internally differentiate these documents from the full manifestos. The text documents are organized by country and language. Manifestos that do not treat migration are either empty or absent. The following manifestos do not mention immigration or immigrant integration: - Austria: GILT 2017 - Switzerland: EVP 1995, SPS 1995, EVP 2007, EVP 2011, SPS 2011 - South Africa: ANC 1994, DP/DA 1994, ANC 1999, DP/DA 1999, IFP 1999, ANC 2004, IFP 2004, COP 2009, IFP 2009, COP 2014, DP/AP 2004, IFP 2014 - United States: Whig 1844, Whig 1852, Republicans 1856, Whig 1856, CUP 1860, Democrats 1872, POP 1892, Republicans 1908, Democrats 1912, PRO 1924, Democrats 1932, Democrats 1936, Republicans 1936, Democrats 1940, Democrats 1948, Republicans 1948, American Independent 1968, LIB 1972 # Instructions for Coding Manifestos Instructions for Coding Party Manifestos over at Harvard Dataverse -- Ruedin, Didier; Morales, Laura, 2013, "Instructions for Coding Party Manifestos", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2UBBC4, Harvard Dataverse, V1 # Reliability We did a fair bit of oral training, especially intruder checks. All checklist coding and most of the manual coding was reviewed by one of the authors. We asked the coders to highlight items that were difficult to ensure that all these could be resolved.