SPEED-CHES
SPEcial EDition CHES surveys
Shorter surveys run between the main CHES waves, each asking experts about party positioning on a single event or a narrow set of issues.
About the series
SPEcial EDition CHES are short, targeted surveys on specific topics or events. Each SPEED survey asks a panel of political scientists specialising in political parties and European integration about party positions on a single issue or a reduced question set, alongside general ideological positions, so the results can be read alongside the main CHES-Europe waves. The first, in 2017, was a FLASH survey with a smaller country and issue set; the 2020 and 2023 waves each focus on a single event — the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Survey team
Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova.
Datasets
2023 SPEED CHES — Ukraine
Administered in June 2023 and completed by 217 political scientists specializing in political parties and European integration, this survey provides information about the positioning of 274 parties on policies related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with general ideological positions. The survey covers political parties in 30 countries, including all European Union member states except Luxembourg and Cyprus, plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. The dataset adopts the country code and party id schema of the CHES trend file, with extensions for newly covered parties, so it can be merged with the trend file.
When using the 2023 SPEED survey, please cite: Hooghe, Liesbet, Gary Marks, Ryan Bakker, Seth Jolly, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova. 2024. "The Russian Threat and the Consolidation of the West: How Populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine." European Union Politics 25.3.
2020 SPEED CHES — COVID-19
Administered in June 2020 and completed by 257 political scientists specializing in political parties and European integration, this survey provides information about the positioning of 251 parties on four COVID-19 related policies. The survey covers political parties in 32 countries, including all European Union member states except Luxembourg, plus Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Merge with the 2019 CHES data and codebook for country codes, party names, and ideological positions.
When using the 2020 SPEED survey, please cite: Rovny, Jan, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova. 2022. "Contesting Covid: The Ideological Bases of Partisan Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic." European Journal of Political Research. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12510
2017 Chapel Hill Expert FLASH Survey
Carried out in January and February 2018, asking about party positions in 2017. A reduced survey focusing on a smaller set of EU member states, asking the standard EU placement and economic/social positioning questions, plus the key issues facing Europe in 2017: EU economic coordination, populism, and migration.
When using the 2017 survey, please cite: Polk, Jonathan, Jan Rovny, Ryan Bakker, Erica Edwards, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Jelle Koedam, Filip Kostelka, Gary Marks, Gijs Schumacher, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Anna Vachudova, and Marko Zilovic. 2017. "Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data." Research & Politics (January–March): 1–9.