euandi2019: Project Description and Datasets Documentation

Abstract

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Professor Brigid Laffan, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research on the major issues facing the process of European integration, European societies and Europe's place in 21 st century global politics.. The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes, projects and data sets, in addition to a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration, the expanding membership of the European Union, developments in Europe's neighbourhood and the wider world.

Three sides of the same coin? comparing party positions in VAAs, expert surveys and manifesto data

“…Factor analyses conducted after the data collection waves have confirmed the described three-dimensional structure of the data. The a priori decisions regarding which statement should be assigned to which dimension have, in most cases, proven to be valid (Garzia et al, 2015;Michel et al, 2019;Reiljan et al, 2019a).…”

Party placement in the void: the European political space in 10 years of cross-national Voting Advice Applications

“…Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that the total variance explained has increased substantially for CEE countries between the 2009 (74.8) and the 2019 edition (99.8), now surpassing Southern Europe. Although the number and the nature of the factors diverge depending on the election year and/or the region, they generally correspond to the four categories identified in Michel et al (2019). However, in all election years studied, nearly 80% of the variance is accounted for by a three-factor solution tapping on the socioeconomic leftright, pro/anti-EU integration, and a progressive-conservative continuum, as suggested by Garzia et al (2015).…”

“…European voters could access euandi again in 2019. The application was developed by the EUI in close collaboration with the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) and reached over 1.2 million users (Michel et al 2019).…”

Mapping Parties’ Positions on Foreign and Security Issues in the EU, 2009–2014

“…By means of factor analysis, one could measure the extent to which EU foreign policy and security issues load onto the same factor. Analyses of VAA-generated data found that EU-related issues load onto the same factor, while immigration loads onto a distinct factor together with related items such as the acceptance of country's values and expansion of welfare to immigrants (Michel et al 2019). These results could also be put in relationship with voter opinions to compare whether dimensionality in individual-level data matches the one stemming from party-level data.…”