PREPPS

The Political Representation, Executives, and Political Parties SurveyPREPPS – 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. Questions on policy positions included the general left-right dimension, the economic left-right, social policies, redistribution, foreign policy, and environmental policy, among others. The 2011 pilot study introduced a single dimension of political appeals in addition to policy dimensions and a general left-right and was fielded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile. The 2015 wave proceeded with measuring subdimensions of political appeals.
The data for these three studies can be found here.

Our 2018/2019 Latin American expert survey expanded substantively and combined previous efforts of measuring policy positioning (Wiesehomeier and Benoit, 2009), democratic linkage mechanisms (Kitschelt 2013), and political appeals (Wiesehomeier, 2019). The data of this wave can be found at the Harvard Dataverse.

The 2021/2022 wave broadened the coverage to include thirty-four additional countries in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, Canada, Israel, Turkey, the United States of America and 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.