A New Measure of Issue Salience: Reassessing the Ideological Positions of Political Parties in Europe

• In Event: Item Response Theory and Measurement Models

Brief Overview

In this paper, we develop a new form of issue-salience for political parties in Europe using manifesto and expert derived data.

Authors

• Ryan Bakker, University of Essex

• Jelle Koedam, University of Zurich

• Dave A. Armstrong, University of Western Ontario