French Party Placement Data from the 2009 European Election Study (EES)

The french.parties.individuals dataset contains party placement data from the French module of the 2009 European Election Study (EES). This dataset was used in Chapter 2 to directly scale respondents’ placements of eight major political parties on a ten-point left-right ideological scale.

Usage

data(french.parties.individuals)

Format

A matrix with 1,000 rows (representing respondents) and 8 columns (representing political parties):

extremeleft

Placement of the "Extreme Left" party.

communist

Placement of the Communist Party.

socialist

Placement of the Socialist Party.

greens

Placement of the Greens Party.

udfbayrou

Placement of the Union for French Democracy (Bayrou's party).

umpsarkozy

Placement of the Union for a Popular Movement (Sarkozy's party).

nationalfront

Placement of the National Front party.

leftparty

Placement of the Left Party.

Source

Data from the French module of the 2009 European Election Study (EES).

Details

The French module of the 2009 EES asked 1,000 respondents to place eight major political parties on a ten-point left-right ideological scale. This dataset, french.parties.individuals, contains those placements. In Chapter 2, these placements were scaled directly to compare the results obtained from scaling different forms of data from the same set of observations.

In addition to directly scaling respondents' placements, each set of placements can be arranged into a similarities matrix for further analysis.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
data(french.parties.individuals)
} # }