Ideology, Strategy and Party Change Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 The influence of election programmes: Britain and Canada 1945–1979.
- 2 The internal analysis of election programmes.
- 3 Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the United States 1946–1981, an initial comparative analysis.
- 4 Canada 1945–1980: party platforms and campaign strategies.
- 5 Sri Lanka 1947–1977: elite programmes and mass politics.
- 6 Israel 1949–1981.
- 7 Ireland 1948–1981: issues, parties, strategies.
- 8 Northern Ireland 1921–1973: party manifestos and platforms.
- 9 Sweden and Denmark 1945–1982: election programmes in the Scandinavian setting.
- 10 The Netherlands 1946–1981.
- 11 Belgium 1946–1981.
- 12 Luxembourg 1945–1982: dimensions and strategies.
- 13 Austria 1945–1978.
- 14 Electoral programmes in West Germany 1949–1980: explorations in the nature of political controversy.
- 15 France 1958–1981: the strategy of joint government platforms.
- 16 Italy 1946–1979: ideological distances and party movements.
- 17 Japan 1960–1980: party programmes in elections.
- 18 Do parties differ, and how? Comparative discriminant and factor analyses.
- Appendices
- A Documentary sources
- B The general coding frame and special country codes
- C Factor analytic strategies used in the investigation of election programmes
- General bibliography
- Index
B - The general coding frame and special country codes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 The influence of election programmes: Britain and Canada 1945–1979.
- 2 The internal analysis of election programmes.
- 3 Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the United States 1946–1981, an initial comparative analysis.
- 4 Canada 1945–1980: party platforms and campaign strategies.
- 5 Sri Lanka 1947–1977: elite programmes and mass politics.
- 6 Israel 1949–1981.
- 7 Ireland 1948–1981: issues, parties, strategies.
- 8 Northern Ireland 1921–1973: party manifestos and platforms.
- 9 Sweden and Denmark 1945–1982: election programmes in the Scandinavian setting.
- 10 The Netherlands 1946–1981.
- 11 Belgium 1946–1981.
- 12 Luxembourg 1945–1982: dimensions and strategies.
- 13 Austria 1945–1978.
- 14 Electoral programmes in West Germany 1949–1980: explorations in the nature of political controversy.
- 15 France 1958–1981: the strategy of joint government platforms.
- 16 Italy 1946–1979: ideological distances and party movements.
- 17 Japan 1960–1980: party programmes in elections.
- 18 Do parties differ, and how? Comparative discriminant and factor analyses.
- Appendices
- A Documentary sources
- B The general coding frame and special country codes
- C Factor analytic strategies used in the investigation of election programmes
- General bibliography
- Index
Summary
Although we discuss methods of data collection and coding in broad outline in Chapter 2 (Section 5), we go into less detail there than for factor analysis (Chapter 2, Section 8). This is because collecting and coding decisions, though of fundamental importance, are even more technical; and closely tied to details of the overall coding frame. We therefore present our full description and justification here, in immediate juxtoposition to the frame itself, so that cross-reference is immediate and easy.
The Appendix therefore falls into three sections: a general account and justification of the decisions taken on quantification and classification of the election programmes – which refers also to certain aspects of the succeeding statistical analyses where data related decisions affected these (B1); a short account of operational procedures (B2); and the coding frame itself (B3). Some supplementary technical analyses will be reported in the associated microfiche publication.
B1 BASIC RESEARCH DESIGN
The research design for this book is the product of deliberation and experimentation over five years by a group of scholars. Although the basic outlines were fixed at the beginning of the project, the details are the product of a lengthy inductive process, and the result of technical problems which could not be identified ahead of time but had to be resolved as they occurred.
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- Ideology, Strategy and Party ChangeSpatial Analyses of Post-War Election Programmes in 19 Democracies, pp. 456 - 467Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987