Supporting resources
PartySOME builds on prior projects, tools, and infrastructure rather than starting from scratch. This page credits them and points to where you can learn more.
PolTextLab ↗
A research lab building multilingual NLP tools for comparative political science. This project uses PolTextLab's CAP models for the issue classification described in Methodology.
Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) ↗
An international collaboration maintaining a standardized coding scheme for classifying policy content across countries and sources. PartySOME II applies the CAP master codebook to classify social media posts into major policy topics — see Methodology for an overview of the categories used here, and the master codebook linked above for the full scheme.
partycoloR ↗
An R package by Lukas Warode providing consistent, official color codes for European political parties. This dashboard's party colors are drawn from it, extended with additional parties not yet covered by the original package.
ParlGov ↗
The Political Data Yearbook / Parliament and Government database, a standardized cross-national resource on parties, elections, and cabinets in parliamentary democracies. PartySOME's party universe and party identifiers are anchored to ParlGov, which is also what lets this dataset be linked to other resources that share the same identifiers (e.g. the Chapel Hill Expert Survey, Party Facts, the Political Party Database).
Chapel Hill Expert Survey ↗
A recurring expert survey placing political parties on their ideology and issue positions across Europe. Alongside ParlGov, this is one of the two main sources behind the ideological party family grouping available on the Issue Trends page — see Methodology for how the two were reconciled.
The PopuList ↗
A collaboratively maintained dataset classifying European political parties as populist, far-right, far-left, and/or Eurosceptic. The far-right classification behind this dashboard's party family grouping is largely based on it — see Methodology for details.