Background
Budge, Ian was born on October 21, 1936 in Leeds, United Kingdom. Son of John Elder and Elizabeth (Barnett) Budge.
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Enriching and empowering its readers, this work gives the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors: parties, governments, and electors in twenty-five democracies over the whole post-war period. It provides a helpful CD-ROM, documentation and suggested uses for data, as well as extensive background information. Economists, socialists, and historians will find the book highly useful; political scientists, policy analysts, rational choice theorists, and comparativists will find it a must.
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(The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of poli...)
The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic and political research. It is thus vital that their quality is established. The purpose of this book is to review methodological issues that have got in the way of straightforwardly using the Manifesto data since our two preceding volumes were published and to resolve them in ways which best serve users and textual analysts in general. The book is thus generally about text-based quantitative analysis with a particular focus on the quality of the CMP-MARPOR data and ways of assessing and using them, In doing so the book goes beyond normal data documentation - essential though that is - to confront the analytic issues faced by users of the data now distributed by MARPOR. It also provides concrete strategies for tackling these at the research level, with examples from the field of political representation. The problems of uncertainty, error, reliability and validity considered here are generic issues for political analysts in any area of research, so the book has an interest extending beyond the Manifesto estimates themselves - in particular to other textual analyses. In addition the book widens the range of applications introduced in our two previous volumes and discusses the extension of the manifesto project database to cover Latin America.
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Budge, Ian was born on October 21, 1936 in Leeds, United Kingdom. Son of John Elder and Elizabeth (Barnett) Budge.
Master of Arts, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1967.
Lecturer University Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 1963-1966, University Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, 1966-1968, reader United Kingdom, 1968-1976, professor United Kingdom, since 1976. Visiting professor University Wisconsin, Madison, 1969-1970, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 1982-1985, University California, Irvine, 1989, University Autonoma, Barcelona, Spain, 1991. Research fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, 1995-1996, University California, Irvine, 2000, Australian National University, Canberra, 2001.
(Enriching and empowering its readers, this work gives the...)
(The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of poli...)
Executive director European Consortium for Political Research, Colchester, 1979-1983. Member political science committee Soecon. and Social Science Council United Kingdom, London, 1980-1983. Fellow Royal Society Arts and Manufacturers London.
Member Political Science Association United Kingdom (membership director 1974-1977).
Married Judith Beatrice Ruth Harrison, July 17, 1964. Children: Gavin Elder, Eileen Elizabeth.