CHES-Latin America

Parties and presidents across twelve countries.

Comparable estimates of party and president positions on ideology and policy in Latin America.

About the survey

Administered in 2020 and completed by 160 experts specializing in political parties, the 2020 CHES-LA dataset provides information about the positioning of 112 political parties and presidents on political ideology, policy positions, party characteristics, and party linkages. The survey covers political parties and presidents in 12 Latin American countries.

CHES-LA 2020 can be combined with CHES-Europe 2019, allowing researchers to directly compare European and Latin American parties across a wide range of dimensions.

Survey team

Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo, Jonathan Hartlyn, Nicolás de la Cerda, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks.

Datasets

2020 Chapel Hill Expert Survey: Latin America

Administered 2020 · 160 experts · 112 parties and presidents · 12 countries

Aggregate and expert-level files, with the codebook and the questionnaire as fielded in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Dataset.dta Dataset.csv Dataset.rds Expert-level dataset.dta Expert-level dataset.csv Expert-level dataset.rds Codebook.pdf Sample questionnaire (English).pdf Sample questionnaire (Spanish).pdf Sample questionnaire (Portuguese).pdf

When using the 2020 survey, please cite: Martínez-Gallardo, Cecilia, Nicolás de la Cerda, Jonathan Hartlyn, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, and Ryan Bakker. 2022. "Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions." Party Politics 0(0): 1–13. doi:10.1177/13540688221090604

Using CHES-LA 2020 together with CHES-Europe 2019, also cite: Jolly, Seth, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova. 2022. "Chapel Hill Expert Survey Trend File, 1999–2019." Electoral Studies 75 (February). doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102420