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Party positions from Wikipedia classifications of party ideology
Date created: 2019-04-25 02:15 PM | Last Updated: 2023-08-11 10:50 PM
Identifier: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/EVXN6
Category: Project
Description: We explore the possibility of expanding the coverage of party position measurement to a larger number of cases by drawing on information about party ideology provided on Wikipedia (see the project Wiki for more details).
We obtain a measure of party position from a scaling of ideology tags supplied in infoboxes on political parties' Wikipedia pages:
We find that the recovered scale can be interpreted in familiar terms of "left vs. right":
Estimated party positions correlate well with ratings of parties' left-right positions from extant large-scale expert surveys:
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