Parties and Party Systems: Typologies

There was created similar Left-Right scale of citizen placement of parties (as in Dalton's paper) named "Try your party on!". Also representatives of parties participated in this self-placement scale and the results were that their self-placement was not always identical to their Left-Right position in parliament (perhaps this is one of the reason why Dalton has not included Latvia in his analysis - table 1 on p. 907). Moreover, in Latvia there is used scale from -3 to +3 (see http://www.politika.lv/index.php?id=11404) comparing to Dalton's scale from 1 to 9. In the end, I would argue that there is no ideal scale of left-right placement and more studies should be done to create such.…