Papers by Nina Wiesehomeier
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften eBooks, Feb 19, 2009
ABSTRACT The use of “expert judgments“ as a research instrument is becoming increasingly popular ... more ABSTRACT The use of “expert judgments“ as a research instrument is becoming increasingly popular in political science as a tool for obtaining knowledge about difficult to measure quantities. At its simplest, expert judgment methodology does “just what it says on the tin“ — namely, to provide information on some objective or subjective state of the world based on a review by persons with comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of the area in question. When more than one expert is consulted, the solicitation of these judgments forms an “expert survey“, the results of which are typically aggregated into some form of median or consensus opinion.
We examine whether populism makes individuals more likely to endorse false claims and reject corr... more We examine whether populism makes individuals more likely to endorse false claims and reject corrections. We do so with survey experiments in Spain and Portugal --- countries with similar socioeconomic and cultural characteristics but different levels of elite and mass populism.
This dataset consists of two different surveys conducted to disentangle the relationships between... more This dataset consists of two different surveys conducted to disentangle the relationships between populist attitudes, programmatic preferences, and socio-demographic characteristics in several party systems. The surveys gather data aimed at assessing: 1) the nature of the associations between populist attitudes and programmatic preferences, political values and socio-demographic characteristics, 2) the direct and indirect effects of such attitudes on voting and electoral competition. The first wave of the Populist attitudes and Political Preferences survey gives access to data from two online public opinion surveys conducted in Spain (2015) and France (2017). These surveys allow us to map populist attitudes as well as other political preferences.
These files will give you everything you need to a) replicate the estimation of presidential posi... more These files will give you everything you need to a) replicate the estimation of presidential positions in the paper and b) perform the subsequent empirical analysis. The files contain a) the presidential speeches; b) the R code to estimate the positions from these speeches; and c) the final positions and do-file (in Stata format) for the empirical analysis. Please read the README.txt file before you begin
Routledge eBooks, Mar 8, 2023
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Data from an expert survey on policy positioning and linkage mechanisms in 18 Latin American coun... more Data from an expert survey on policy positioning and linkage mechanisms in 18 Latin American countries. Please see Condidtions Codebook V2 for more details
The ideational approach to populism: concept, theory and analysis, 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-71653-7, págs. 374-395, 2019
Political Research Quarterly, 2018
Throughout the world, the number of women elected to legislatures has risen dramatically. Most of... more Throughout the world, the number of women elected to legislatures has risen dramatically. Most of the quantitative research explaining party, district, or national differences has focused on the aggregate rather than the candidate level thereby overlooking women’s access to party ballots. In examining both the election and selection stages, we focus on Spain, a closed-list proportional representation system where parties have tight control over their ballots and the election of candidates is largely a function of rank orders on the ballot. In this South European democracy women’s representation in the national parliament has experienced an incremental track, reaching 39 percent in 2016. Party differences in gender outcomes and policies promoting equal gender representation did not vanish once a legislated quota was introduced in 2007. The empirical analysis builds on an original set of candidate longitudinal data covering nine elections held between 1986 and 2016. Specifically, we t...
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2012
Do Latin American citizens share a common conception of the ideological left–right distinction? A... more Do Latin American citizens share a common conception of the ideological left–right distinction? And if so, is this conception linked to individuals’ ideological self-placement? Selecting questions from the 2006 Latinobarómetro survey based on a core definition of the left–right divide rooted in political theory and philosophy, this paper addresses these questions. We apply joint correspondence analysis to explore whether citizens who relate to the same ideological identification also share similar and coherent convictions and beliefs that reflect the ideological content of the left-right distinction. Our analysis indicates that theoretical conceptions about the roots of, and responsibility for, inequality in society, together with the translation of these beliefs into attitudes regarding the state versus market divide, distinguish those who self-identify with the left and those who self-identify with the right.
The Journal of Politics, 2017
Presidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highli... more Presidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highlights that some form of ideological compromise on behalf of the president is vital to sustain successful legislative coalitions. Yet, primarily due to the lack of a firm empirical basis on which to measure such presidential give-and-take, the extent to which presidents make use of such policy compromise, and under what conditions this is a viable strategy, remains unknown. Applying quantitative text analysis to 305 annual 'State of the Union' addresses of 73 presidents in thirteen Latin American countries, we remedy this situation and provide comparable time-series data for Latin American presidential movements in a one-dimensional issue space between 1980 and 2014. Our results indicate that presidents will compromise in response to changes in the median party, although this effect will be mediated by the institutional context within which the president operates.
Political Science Research and Methods, 2013
The electoral success of the left across Latin America has largely been interpreted as a backlash... more The electoral success of the left across Latin America has largely been interpreted as a backlash against globalization and a manifestation of anti-market voting of citizens increasingly frustrated with their experience of representative democracy. However, studies trying to test these propositions show rather inconclusive results and face the problem of translating objective economic conditions into observable individual perceptions. This article contends that theories of subjective well-being in psychology and economics can shed light on this left turn. In particular, life satisfaction, as a manifestation of experienced utility, can help explain the electoral outcomes observed throughout the region. The findings show that support for the left is higher the more unsatisfied voters are under a right incumbent.
Revista Internacional De Sociologia, 2018
European party systems have witnessed the emergence of populist discursive elements among politic... more European party systems have witnessed the emergence of populist discursive elements among political parties with quite diverse ideological platforms. In this article we analyze the role and correlates of populist political attitudes in Spain, France, and Italy, three countries that present important differences in the nature of the parties articulating populist discourses. In the first place, we conduct factor analyses in order to explore the public opinion map of policy preferences and political attitudes in these three countries. These analyses reveal the presence of a clearly distinguishable dimension of populist attitudes in all these countries. In the second place, we examine the party system articulation of citizen preferences in the bi-dimensional spaces constituted by populist attitudes, left-right economic preferences, and preferences regarding immigration. Our analysis reveals strong associations between populist attitudes and left-right preferences at the party level, and...
During recent years the so-called left turn across the Latin American continent has stimulated re... more During recent years the so-called left turn across the Latin American continent has stimulated research seeking to explain this resurgence, accompanied by a lively debate about distinct variants of the left, broadly conceived as “good” and “bad,” social democratic and populist. This paper goes beyond this simplistic distinction: It explores the substantive policy content of left and right in Latin American countries using original expert survey data of policy positions of political parties and presidents in 18 countries and furthermore compares these left-right estimates with results from elite surveys. The examples discussed underscore the need to take policy positions on particular policy dimensions into account and show that caution is recommended in the use of the general left-right axis.
One controversy in the study of civil war relates to the role that institutions play in ethnicall... more One controversy in the study of civil war relates to the role that institutions play in ethnically diverse societies. 'Constitutional engineers' advance various institutional arrangements, ranging from democ racy in general to specific constitutional and electoral rules, as those mechanisms that help divided soci eties to resolve disputes peacefully. Political sociologists, by contrast, maintain that political institutions are largely an epiphenomenon. Synthesizing the two conflicting schools of thought, the authors examine how different institutions in conjunction with three forms of ethnic diversity ? fractionalization, dom inance and polarization ? affect the risk of civil war. It is argued that groups perceive institutions as a constraint and that they consider the usage of political violence if they cannot achieve their goals peace fully. The examination of these conditional institutionalist hypotheses for the period between 1950 and 2000 shows, in accordance with recen...
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Papers by Nina Wiesehomeier