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Chapel Hill Expert Survey of party positions

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The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Here’s a summary thread:
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August 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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How much do Britons and political scientists - via @chesdata.bsky.social - agree on parties' place on the left-right spectrum?

Green: -55 Britons vs -59 experts
Labour: -36 vs -24
Lib Dems: -23 vs -23
Cons: +51 vs +53
Reform UK: +69 vs +85

Scale where -100 is very left and +100 is very right
April 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A bonus to being a member of the @chesdata.bsky.social team is being involved in *super* cool projects, like this one - led by @ndelacerda.bsky.social and just out in @thejop.bsky.social 👇
With much thanks to @ndelacerda.bsky.social & a great @chesdata.bsky.social team, we have a new JOP article (early access) comparing expert evaluations of party positions from Europe to Israel to North America to Australia. doi.org/10.1086/736578
A global scale of economic left-right party positions: cross-national and cross-expert perceptions of party placements | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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May 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The CHES is a survey of national party experts to place parties on political dimensions. It is generally considered the gold standard of comparative party research.
The new data has just come you. You can check it out with the link below. Big thank you to the team!
bsky.app/profile/ches...
We are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website.

Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!
2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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March 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The @chesdata.bsky.social dataset is one of the most comprehensive sources on party ideology and positioning. It offers valuable insights into the evolution of political parties from 1999 (the first wave) to the present.
We are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website.

Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!
2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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March 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Europe's political parties in the new CHES data @chesdata.bsky.social at a glance: the political compass space. With apologies to Iceland, which didn't fit onto the chart

In this space, the party systems fall into two broad patterns

1) 🟦 vs 🟩

2) 🟥 vs 🟨



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March 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website.

Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!
2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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March 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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‼️ O, Canada is now in CHES!

The data include party position estimates for federal parties in Canada + parties in Ontario and Quebec. It's also super easy to combine with other @chesdata.bsky.social data to compare positions with positions of parties in other countries!
Check out the latest addition to the CHES family, CHES-Canada 2023: www.chesdata.eu/chescanada

Thanks to @jellekoedam.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social for their work on this project!

More news to follow soon on CHES-Europe 2024!
CHES-Canada — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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February 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!
Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe
Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos
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February 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Check out the latest addition to the CHES family, CHES-Canada 2023: www.chesdata.eu/chescanada

Thanks to @jellekoedam.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social for their work on this project!

More news to follow soon on CHES-Europe 2024!
CHES-Canada — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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February 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Check out this awesome postdoc opportunity with my friend @jonathanpolk.bsky.social at Lund: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

So much great work to be done in this area and working with Jon would be fantastic!
Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe
Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos
lu.varbi.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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@chesdata.bsky.social is an interesting data source for information about political parties. I made a small quiz website with its data for the upcoming german election:
wahlquiz.de/ches/
When can I update it with 2024 data?
Wahlquiz
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January 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
If you’re thinking about the upcoming German election, check out this data viz created by Tom Theile, which allows you to find which parties you’re closest to on several issues (based on CHES data): https://wahlquiz.de/ches/en.html
January 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The 2024 CHES survey is well on its way to finalizing, and we hope to release it soon after closing the survey. In a preliminary look of western Europe, notice the continued presence of the inverted U of EU support and left-right.
December 4, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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The inverted U persists in Western Europe.

Also, new @chesdata.bsky.social coming to a website near you (www.chesdata.eu) soon!!
November 27, 2024 at 4:41 PM
While CHES 2024 is in the field, check out the shiny apps showcasing our data at chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/

Suggestions welcome for new off the shelf graphs, @sethkjolly.bsky.social will create some new ones next spring with the new data!
chesdata.shinyapps.io
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November 26, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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CHES party positions are now also available for Canada!

Thank you @rdassonneville.bsky.social and
@chesdata.bsky.social for a great collaboration.

See 🧵 below for more!
Excited to share CHES Canada! We (with @jellekoedam.bsky.social) published a note in the CJPS in which we present the data from this latest addition to the Chapel Hill Expert Survey. You can access the note here doi.org/10.1017/S000...
November 15, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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Check out the latest from the @chesdata.bsky.social Europe team: doi.org/10.1177/1465...

Using expert data on party positions, we argue that perceived threat and ideology explains party positions on support for Ukraine.
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March 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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The @chesdata.bsky.social ches_data
team is happy to present our newest paper in
EUP: The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#polisky #EUsky
The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine - Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Ryan Bakker, Seth Jolly, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Ma...
Support for Ukraine against Russian aggression has been strong across Europe, but it is far from uniform. An expert survey of the positions taken by political p...
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March 18, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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The 2024 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis will soon be open for applications. We've got a great program of classes and, of course, our world famous social program as well. Lots of new and exciting stuff going on. Watch this space for updates.

#ESS2024 #BestNerdySummerCamp
February 21, 2024 at 12:23 PM
If you use CHES data in your polisky research or public facing work, let us know and we will share it and repost it!
February 13, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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“Miles ahead of the rest”: honorary doctorates for two political scientists and an economist at Maastricht University

With my take on the exceptional scholarship of Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks

➡️ www.observantonline.nl/english/Home...
January 25, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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The 2023 @ches_data on political parties’ support for Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion is freely available for download on our website at chesdata.eu/speedches. We thank the hundreds of respondents that provided their time and expertise, making this dataset possible.
Speed CHES — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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February 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Last week, we released a speed CHES dataset on European party positions towards Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Those data can be found at chesdata.eu/speedches.

Our paper on how ideology shapes party support for Ukraine can also be found at chesdata.eu!
Speed CHES — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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February 12, 2024 at 7:03 PM
The new @chesdata.bsky.social-Israel team,
@rbakker.bsky.social & @roizur.bsky.social, announce the release of the first CHES-Israel dataset at chesdata.eu/chesisrael. Their paper discussing the data is out now at Party Politics: orcid.org/0000-0003-19...
CHES-Israel — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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February 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM