[EB] HOLLAND POLITICAL PARTIES REQUEST

Martha Peach peach at mail.march.es
Thu Feb 6 12:35:55 EST 1997


Dear Lennart,

You sent me the following by mistake.  Hope all is well with you.




At 09:11 6/02/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Dr Alaminos,
>
>There is one  way for you to find a partial answer to your question. If
>you look at the following webaddress:
>http://www.ssd.gu.se/kid/swe/cbk/SSD_0508.html#var-list
>you will find the conventional right-left coding of some of the dutch
>political parties, those represented in their parliament. It goes like
>this  - from left to right.
> Netherlands
>    
>    14. <SP> Socialistische Partij
>        [Socialist Party]
>    17. Groen Links
>        [Green Left]
>    20. <PvdA> Partij van de Arbeid
>        [Labour Party]
>    22. <D'66> Democraten 66
>        [Democrats '66]
>    52. <U55+> Unie 55+
>        [Union 55+]
>    53. <AOV> Algemeen Ouderen Verbond
>        [General Association of Elderly People]
>    57. <CD> Centrum Democraten
>        [Centre Democrats]
>    63. <CDA> Christen Democratisch Appel
>        [Christian Democratic Appeal]
>    70. <VVD> Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie
>        [Liberal Party]
>    81. <SGP> Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij
>        [Political Reformed Party]
>    82. <GPV> Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond
>        [Reformed Political Union]
>    84. <RPF> Reformatorische Politieke
>        Federatie
>        [Reformed Political Federation]
>    
>This is from the Eurobarometer 43.1 spring 1995. Unfortunately this
>variable still is under embargo. What you can do is to turn to
>Zentralarchiev, Cologne or to ICPSR and ask for an earlier issue of the
>same Eurobarometer, the latest one where all embargoes are lifted. You
>can through that dataset find out the latest known EMPIRICAL positions 
>based on sampled individual voters. In addition to this list of
>political parties in Holland  there is a question about right-left
>position 1-10  in these barometers so you will have a possibility to
>calculate an arithmetic mean for each group of voters.
>
>Library Director Martha Peach at Instituto Juan March de estudios e
>investigaciones Castello 77,  28006 Madrid is Official representative
>for a Spanish national membership of ICPSR . She can probably also help
>you further in this case.
>Best regards
>
>/Lennart Brantgarde, FD
>Director
>Swedish Social Science Data Service
>======================================================
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>
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>
>
Martha Peach
Director of the Library
Center of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Juan March Institute
Madrid, Spain




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