The validity of the RILE left–right index as a measure of party policy

Mölder, Martin

doi:10.1177/1354068813509525

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“…Although this measure has occasionally been criticized (see Gemenis, 2013 for an overview), it remains widely used and has almost achieved a monopoly status in the field (Laver and Garry, 2000: 620). Importantly, in a thorough review and analysis of the measure, Mölder (2013) finds that it is valid for countries that have not experienced a communist past, which is what I am concerned with in this article. To measure the effect of parties’ economic and policy preferences, the article uses the composite CMP measure of how favourable a party is to a free-market economy 3 .…”

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What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience?

Farstad

2017

Party Politics

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The article explains the variation of climate change salience in party manifestos, examining the effects of party characteristics. Creating a novel measure of parties’ climate change salience based on Comparative Manifesto Project data, the article finds that parties have broadly not made climate change a salient issue, though significant differences remain. Left–right ideology significantly helps explain these differences and is more important than any other party characteristic in explaining the variation. This underlines the importance of ideology over economic and policy preferences, size and strategic incentives and incumbency constraints and points towards the partisan (as opposed to the valence) nature of the climate change issue. These results contrast to those of an identical analysis of environmental salience where ideology is found to have no effect, underlining how the two issues should be treated differently and lending further support to the argument that climate change is not a valence issue.

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confidence: 71%

What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience?

Farstad

2017

Party Politics

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“…In particular, Alt et al (2006) and Rios et al (2016) used a binary measure of conservative or liberal party ideology in power. However, scholars have challenged the validity and reliability of cross-national ideological measures (Molder, 2013). According to Benoit and Laver (2006) “it may be impossible for any single scale to measure this dimension in a manner that can be used for reliable or meaningful cross-national comparison” (p. 158).…”

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Examining the Evolution of Cross-National Fiscal Transparency

Arapis

Reitano

2017

The American Review of Public Administration

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Over the past two decades, global institutions, including the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic CoOperation and Development, have linked fiscal transparency to better governance, improved economic performance, and increased civic participation in government decision making. As a result, scholars and practitioners have attempted to systematically study the factors associated with a country's fiscal transparency. At the international level, extant research employs cross-sectional analysis, which limits an understanding of how fiscal transparency evolves over time. We address this limitation by offering a cross-national longitudinal analysis of the factors associated with fiscal transparency as measured by the open budget index. Our study spans the years 2006 to 2012, using data on political, fiscal, information access, and economic conditions among 59 countries from nearly every part of the world. Using a first-difference panel regression and robust standard errors clustered by country, we found a positive association between economic recessions and fiscal transparency, indicating that fiscal crises may serve as opportunities for furthering transparency efforts. In addition, our study extends empirical documentation on the positive relationship between fiscal imbalance and fiscal transparency from the United States to the international arena, and provides support for a positive association between development aid and fiscal transparency. We also offer evidence for a negative association between democracy and fiscal transparency, which builds upon an emerging area of research suggesting selective release of government information by democratically elected officials.

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“…All descriptions and measures entail some reliability concerns when linking social strata to political parties. Classification by criteria derived from a century or more ago can result in evaluation errors (McDonald & Budge, 2014;Mölder, 2016). Policies adjust and public attitudes are capricious.…”

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Where is the middle? Considering the socio-political centre in Germany

Wood

2020

European Politics and Society

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Where is the political middle? This article revisits the concept in an era of populisms, radicals, extremists, niche parties, social movements, swinging voters, non-voters, and a shrinking 'mainstream'. The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is a pertinent case because of its history as an archetypal consensus democracy. 'Left' and 'Right' were parameters shaping the 'middle'. Plurality and fluctuation in the electorate challenges these coordinates and change in the party system surpassed previous 'transformations'. Three crises correlated with fragmentation and upheaval. A fourth correlates with a shift, at least temporarily, back to a traditional 'centre' party. The article draws on election and polling data, surveys, party programmes, media sources, and a multidisciplinary literature.

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The validity of the RILE left–right index as a measure of party policy

Cited by 26 publications

References 38 publications

What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience?

What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience?

Examining the Evolution of Cross-National Fiscal Transparency

Where is the middle? Considering the socio-political centre in Germany

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