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EU Profiler-Euandi Trendfile Codebook - Codebook - EU Profiler/euandi Trend File (2009-2019) European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies February 2020 Introduction The EU Profiler/euandi Trend File (2009-2019) combines party position data from three pan-European voting advice applications (VAAs), developed for the European Parliament elections in 2009, 2014 and 2019. It includes the positions of over 400 parties1 from the 28 EU member states on a wide range of salient political issues. The project was first launched in 2009 under the name ‘EU Profiler’ by the European University Institute (EUI), in collaboration with Smartvote (Switzerland) and Kieskompas (2009). By positioning more than 270 political parties from 30 European countries2 it was the first cross-national VAA of such magnitude. EU Profiler was succeeded by ‘euandi’ (EU and I) in 2014 and re-launched as ‘euandi2019’ five years later, in collaboration with the University of Luzern.3 To determine party positions on the political issues, all three editions of the VAA have used the same iterative method that combines party self-placement and expert judgement. All the parties were offered a chance to place themselves on the pre-selected issue-statements. The parties were also placed on the same list of issues by a group of experts from each EU member state. The results were then compared and, if necessary, calibrated in co-operation with the party representatives. If the party did not respond to the invitation to participate in the self-placement procedure, the positions were determined solely by the expert group.4 Over 100 highly trained experts across Europe worked for each of these VAAs to make such immense data collection endeavour possible. The VAAs launched in 2009 and 2014 included a set of 30 political issue-statements, out of which 28 were identical for all the countries and 2 were country-specific. In 2019, the number of statements was reduced to 22 and all the items were identical across the countries. Some of the statements were changed over the years, but 15 of them remained the same since 2009. These items – pertaining to a wide range of salient topics such as social values, ecological/green policies, immigration, European 1 The criteria for selecting parties was that they should have a certain level of relevance in the respective party system. The relevance was defined in rather lenient terms, so that parties that were credited with at least 1% of the popular vote in the polls preceding the EP election were considered for the VAA. Thus, the dataset also includes a number of rather minor parties. 2 EU Profiler included all 27 countries that at the time belonged to the European Union, and in addition also Croatia, Switzerland and Turkey. As Switzerland and Turkey were not included in the 2014 and 2019 VAAs, they are excluded from the Trend File. 3 In 2014, the EUI collaborated with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and with LUISS University in Rome; the 2019 was carried out in cooperation with the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. 4 In 2009, approximately 40% of the parties took part in the self-placement, in 2014 and 2019, the percentage was slightly above 50%. integration and classic socioeconomic left-right issues – allow direct temporal comparisons and make this dataset especially valuable for longitudinal research. General variables COUNTRY = Alphabetic country identifier COUNTRY_CODE = Numeric country identifier YEAR = The year the party was placed (2009, 2014, 2019) PUI = Party Unique Identifier CHESS = Chapel Hill Expert Survey code of the party SELFPLACEMENT = A dummy variable indicating whether the party participated in the self-placement process (1 – yes; 0 – no). EPVOTE = The vote share of the party in the respective European Parliament election. EPVOTE_COALITION = Vote share of a party coalition that the respective party was part of (in case when the separate party vote share is not discernible).5 5 In some countries, parties formed electoral coalitions/alliances for the EP election and the vote shares of the separate parties were not discernible; yet, some of these parties were represented separately in the VAA. In these instances we have assigned the vote share of the whole coalition to the separate parties that were part of it and marked the main „EPVOTE“ variable as a missing value. Issue-statements Party positions on each statement were coded according to the following answer categories: No opinion = . Completely disagree = 0 Tend to disagree = 25 Neutral = 50 Tend to agree = 75 Completely agree = 100 Common statements 2009 Variable Statement S1_09 Social programs should be maintained even at the cost of higher taxes. S2_09 Greater efforts should be made to privatize healthcare services in the country. S3_09 State subsidies for crèches and child care should be increased substantially. S4_09 Immigration policies oriented towards skilled workers should be encouraged as a means of fostering economic growth. S5_09 Immigration into the country should be made more restrictive. S6_09 Immigrants from outside Europe should be required to accept our culture and values. S7_09 The legalisation of same sex marriages is a good thing S8_09 Religious values and principles should be shown greater respect in politics. S9_09 The decriminalization of the personal use of drugs is to be welcomed. S10_09 Euthanasia should be legalised S11_09 Government spending should be reduced in order to lower taxes S12_09 The EU should acquire its own tax raising powers S13_09 Governments should bail out failing banks with public money. S14_09 Governments should reduce workers' protection regulations in order to fight unemployment S15_09 The EU should drastically reduce its subsidies to Europe’s farmers. S16_09 Renewable sources of energy (e.g., solar or wind energy) should be supported even if this means higher energy costs. S17_09 The promotion of public transport should be fostered through green taxes (e.g., road taxing). S18_09 Policies to fight global warming should be encouraged even if it hampers economic growth or employment. S19_09 Restrictions of civil liberties should be accepted in the fight against terrorism. S20_09 Criminals should be punished more severely S21_09 On foreign policy issues, such as the relationship with Russia, the EU should speak with one voice. S22_09 The European Union should strengthen its security and defence policy S23_09 European integration is a good thing S24_09 [Your country] is much better off in the EU than outside it. S25_09 The European Union should be enlarged to include Turkey. S26_09 The European Parliament should be given more powers. S27_09 Individual member states of the EU should have less veto power S28_09 Any new European Treaty should be subject to approval in a referendum in [your country] Common statements 2014 Variable Statement S1_14 Social programs should be maintained even at the cost of higher taxes. It should be harder for EU immigrants working or staying in [your country] to get access to social assistance benefits than it is S2_14 for [your country's] citizens S3_14 Pension benefits should be reduced to limit the state debt in [your country] S4_14 To fight the problem of illegal immigration, the European Union should take responsibility in patrolling its borders S5_14 Immigration [into your country] should be made more restrictive S6_14 Immigrants from outside Europe should be required to accept our culture and values S7_14 The legalisation of same sex marriages is a good thing S8_14 Embryonic stem cell research should be stopped S9_14 The legalisation of the personal use of soft drugs is to be welcomed S10_14 Euthanasia should be legalised S11_14 Government spending should be reduced in order to lower taxes S12_14 The EU should acquire its own tax raising powers S13_14 Bank and stock market gains should be taxed more heavily S14_14 Governments should reduce workers' protection regulations in order to fight unemployment S15_14 The state should provide stronger financial support to unemployed workers S16_14 The EU should relax its austerity policy in order to foster economic growth S17_14 The promotion of public transport should be fostered through green taxes (e.g. road taxing) S18_14 Renewable sources of energy (e.g. solar or wind energy) should be supported even if this means higher energy costs S19_14 Restrictions of personal privacy on the Internet should be accepted for public security reasons S20_14 Criminals should be punished more severely S21_14 Access to abortion should become more restricted S22_14 The European Union should strengthen its security and defence policy S23_14 On foreign policy issues the EU should speak with one voice S24_14 European integration is a good thing S25_14 To tackle the sovereign debt crisis, the member states of the Eurozone should be allowed to issue common bonds (Eurobonds) S26_14 The single European currency (Euro) is a bad thing S27_14 Individual member states of the EU should have less veto power S28_14 Any new European Treaty should be subject to approval in a referendum in [your country] Common statements 2019 Variable Statement S1_19 Social programs should be maintained even at the cost of higher taxes. S2_19 The state should provide stronger financial support to unemployed workers S3_19 The EU should rigorously punish Member States that violate the EU deficit rules S4_19 Asylum-seekers should be distributed proportionally among EU Member States through a mandatory relocation system S5_19 Immigration [into your country] should be made more restrictive S6_19 Immigrants from outside Europe should be required to accept our culture and values S7_19 The legalisation of same sex marriages is a good thing S8_19 The legalisation of the personal use of soft drugs is to be welcomed S9_19 Euthanasia should be legalised S10_19 Government spending should be reduced in order to lower taxes S11_19 The EU should acquire its own tax raising powers S12_19 Bank and stock market gains should be taxed more heavily S13_19 The promotion of public transport should be fostered through green taxes (e.g.
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