Datasets on party positions across Latin America
Valparaíso, Chile. Photo credit: Sol-Angel Ramírez Aqueveque
2020 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES): Latin America
description
Administered in 2020 and completed by 160 experts specializing in political parties, the 2020 CHES LA dataset provides information about the positioning of 112 political parties and presidents on political ideology, policy positions, party characteristics, and party linkages. The survey covers political parties and presidents in 12 Latin American countries. The CHES LA 2020 can be combined with CHES 2019, allowing researchers to directly compare European and Latin American parties across a wide range of dimensions.
datasets
Sample questionnaire: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Survey team
Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo, Jonathan Hartlyn, Nicolás de la Cerda, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks.
how to cite
When using the CHES LA 2020:, cite the following:
Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo, Nicolás de la Cerda, Jonathan Hartlyn, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, and Ryan Bakker. 2022. “Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions.” Party Politics Vol. 0(0) 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688221090604
When using the CHES-LA 2020 and CHES-Europe 2019, also cite the following:
Jolly, Seth, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova. 2022. “Chapel Hill Expert Survey Trend File, 1999-2019.” Electoral Studies 75 (February). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102420