Political Representation, Executives, and Political Parties Survey 

Collecting information on party systems in Latin America, Europe, and beyond using expert surveys.

PREPPS started in 2006/2007 as an effort of measuring policy positions across 18 Latin American countries with a unique focus on political parties and presidents. In recent years PREPPS has expanded geographically and substantively. Our 2018/2019 Latin American expert survey expanded and combined previous efforts of measuring policy positioning (Wiesehomeier and Benoit, 2009) democratic linkage mechanisms (Kitschelt 2013), and political appeals (Wiesehomeier, 2019).

Questions on policy positions included the general left-right dimension, the economic left-right, social policies, redistribution, foreign policy, and environmental policy, among others. Furthermore the survey collected information on measures of direct democracy, conditional exchange and party organization. The data of this last wave can be found at the Harvard Dataverse.

In 2021 we streamlined our survey instrument and broadened the coverage to include thirty-four additional countries in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, Canada, Israel, Turkey and the United States of America. In 2022 we will relaunch the survey for Latin America and include countries of the MENA region. This will not only enable scholars to explore the policy positions of political parties across regions, but it will also update information on core countries included in Party Policy in Modern Democracies.