- In the early 1990s, Robert Harmel
(1977 NU PhD, now at Texas A&M) and I got an NSF
grant:
- to update my data for parties in
the US, UK, Denmark, and
Germany to 1990 for studying party
change
- That led to several joint
publications, including
- "An Integrated Theory of Party
Goals and Party Change," Journal of Theoretical
Politics, 6 (July, 1994), 259-287. Reprinted in
Steven B. Wolinetz, (Ed.), Political Parties
(Hampshire, U.K., Dartmouth Publishing,
1998).
- "Performance, Leadership,
Factions, and Party Change: An Empirical Analysis,"
West European Politics, 18 (January, 1995),
1-33.
- "Changes in Party Identity:
Evidence from Party Manifestos," Party
Politics, 1 (April, 1995), 171-196. (also with
NU doctoral candidates: Christine Edens, and
Patricia Goff)
- In 2000 (assisted by NU doctoral
candidates Christina Nystrom and Tulia Falleti), I held a
"summer camp" for undergraduates at Northwestern to
prepare for updating all my parties data to 2000.
- Students updated most of the
country descriptions.
- The information is available at
http://janda.org/icpp
- The goal was to develop a
framework for scholars across the world to code
parties on my variables and to submit the results via
the internet.
- In July 2003, I'll present a paper on
the methodology at the World Congress of the
International Political Science Association in Durban,
South Africa.
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