نبذة مختصرة : The data described in this report were collected for the DIPAC-project. The project’s aim was to investigate the proposed crisis of parties and party systems in Western Europe during the last four decades. The implications of the crisis are that the link between political parties and citizens has been broken, that the political substance of the dominant parties is becoming increasingly similar, and that party systems are being fragmented along new cleavages where right-wing populist, anti-immigration parties are being set against their opposites, such as green parties. The project aimed to answer the following two questions: 1. To what extent are the ideas and policies of political parties converging or diverging in Western European party systems? 2. Are changes in the parties’ ideas and policies initiated mainly by the parties, or are they adjusting to voter demand arising from social changes? One of our main goals was to collect and analyze data on governments in established democracies in a systematic and comparable manner for the time-period from the mid-1970s to the mid-2010s. The eight cases in focus in the project are Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland (not included in this data set), the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. ; Minskad ideologisk polarisering i Västeuropa? (MIPOK)
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