Team Expert surveys aims at constructing a comparative database covering parties and party systems in Europe and in Latin America. We understand populism as a separate dimension of party competition among political actors that may or may not become activated. Capturing degrees of populism along this continuum will allow us to explore how populism relates to other policy dimensions, such as for example the general left-right positioning. The resulting data can be used to explore individual level questions by linking survey data to party positions, but also questions at the aggregate level.
The 2018 Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA) dataset measures positions and attitudes of 250 parties on key attributes related to populism, political style, party ideology, and party organization in 28 European countries. The expert survey was fielded between April 2018 and July 2018 to 294 country-experts.
