Replication data from a 2026 study published in Perspectives on Politics examines how populist parties blur their policy positions. The dataset, created by author Nicolás de la Cerda, compares party strategies across European and Latin American political systems. It supports the argument that multidimensional party systems and exclusionary ideologies drive populists to blur economic positions.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the relationship between party system dimensionality and strategic blurring based on the comparative framework.
- Modeling how host ideologies constrain populist party behavior based on the described theoretical mechanism.
- Testing hypotheses about the heterogeneity of populist actors across different regions mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Data supports a peer-reviewed study published in Perspectives on Politics.
- Extends the research field on positional blurring beyond Europe for the first time, according to the description.
- Last updated on 2026-06-18, suggesting recent maintenance.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The description does not specify the exact temporal coverage of the underlying data.
Provenance
- Source
- de la Cerda, Nicolás; Perspectives on Politics
- Collection Method
- Likely contains quantitative data on party positions and system characteristics, gathered for academic research.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-18 02:39:39; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Europe and Latin America