Mission
The Chapel Hill expert surveys estimate party positioning on ideology and policy issues, and international relations for national parties in countries across the world. CHES-Europe covers six waves: 1999, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2019. The number of countries increased from 14 Western European countries in 1999 to 24 current or prospective EU members in 2006 to 32 countries in 2019. In this time, the number of national parties grew from 143 to 277. The 2019 survey includes all EU member states, plus parties in Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. Separate surveys were conducted in the Balkan candidate countries. Questions on parties' general position on European integration, several EU policies, general left/right, economic left/right, and social left/right are common to all CHES-Europe surveys. More recent surveys also contain questions on non-EU policy issues, such as immigration, redistribution, decentralization, and environmental policy.
CHES-Latin America, launched in 2020, provides comparable estimates for party positioning on ideology, policy issues, and international relations for 112 national parties in twelve Latin American countries, alongside some region-specific questions. CHES-LA also provides estimates for the position of presidents in these countries.
Funding
Previous waves of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey received support from the following:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for European Studies, a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence.
The European Union's ERC Advanced Grant on Causes and Consequences of Multilevel Governance (No. 249543)
The European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme EUENGAGE: "Bridging the gap between public opinion and European leadership: engaging a dialogue on the future path of Europe" (No. 649281)
A public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the “Investissements d’Avenir” program LIEPP (ANR-11-LABX-0091, ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02)
The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), grant number 2016-01810.
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, grant number P13-1090:1.
Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences
The Advanced ERC Grant TRANSNATIONAL (#885026)
The Reckford Professorship and the Dawson Professorship at UNC-Chapel Hill
The Rapoport Family Foundation.