Mexican Political Party Positions on Left-Right Scale (2000 & 2006)

The mexicoCSES2000 dataset contains data from the 2000 and 2006 Mexican modules of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). In these surveys, Mexican citizens were asked to place the major political parties on an 11-point left-right scale.

Usage

data(mexicoCSES2000)

Format

A data frame with the following variables representing major political parties in Mexico:

PAN

Left-right placement of the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional).

PRI

Left-right placement of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional).

PRD

Left-right placement of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática).

PT

Left-right placement of the Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo).

Greens

Left-right placement of the Green Party (Partido Verde Ecologista de México).

PARM

Left-right placement of the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (Partido Auténtico de la Revolución Mexicana).

Source

Data from the 2000 and 2006 Mexican modules of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES).

Details

The data were collected as part of the 2000 and 2006 Mexican modules of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). In these surveys, respondents were asked to rate the major political parties in Mexico on an 11-point left-right ideological scale.

Examples

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