Making space: citizens, parties and interest groups in two ideological dimensions

Figures & data

Table 1. Interest group populations and survey responses.

Country	Number of identified groups	Responded to survey	Response rate
Belgium	1691	693	41%
Lithuania	905	365	40%
Netherlands	2479	937	38%
Slovenia	1203	439	36%
Sweden	1534	650	42%

Figure 1. Left-Right and Gal-Tan Public Opinion. Note: Self-reported Left-Right and Gal-Tan preferences of EES 2014 Voter Study respondents in Belgium, Lithuania, Netherlands, Slovenia, and Sweden. Left-Right and Gal-Tan are the additive indices of three policy questions related to each dimension described in the text.

Figure 3. Belgian, Dutch, and Swedish Interest Groups and Political Parties. Full party names: Belgium: PS – Socialist Party, SPA – Socialist Party Different, ECOLO – Ecolo, Groen – Green, MR – Reformist Movement, VLD – Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats, CDH – Humanist Democratic Center, CD&V – Christian Democratic and Flemish, NVA – New Flemish Alliance, FDF – Francophone Democratic Federalists, VB – Flemish Interest, PVDA – Workers’ Party of Belgium, PP – People’s Party. Netherlands: CDA – Christian Democratic Appeal, PvdA – Labor Party, VVD – People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, D66 – Democrats 66, GL – GreenLeft, SGP – Political Reformed Party, SP – Socialist Party, CU – Christian Union, PVV – Party for Freedom, PvdD – Party for the Animals, 50PLUS – 50PLUS. Sweden: V – Left Party, S – Swedish Social Democratic Party, C – Center Party, L – Liberal People’s Party, M – Moderate Party, KD – Christian Democrats, MP – Environment Party – The Greens, SD – Sweden Democrats, PIRA – Pirate Party, FI – Feminist Initative.

Figure 4. Lithuanian and Slovenian Interest Groups and Political Parties. Full party names: Lithuania: LSDP – Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, TS-LKD – Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, LVZS – Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union, LLRA – Electoral Action of Lithuania’s Poles, TT – Order and Justice, DP – Labor Party, LRLS – Liberal Movement, DK – The Way of Courage. Slovenia: SDS – Slovenian Democratic Party, SD – Social Democrats, SLS – Slovenian People’s Party, NSI – New Slovenia-Christian People’s Party, DeSUS – Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia, SMC – Party of Miro Cerar, ZL – United Left, ZaAB – Alliance of Alenka Bratušek, PS – Positive Slovenia.

Figure 5. Overall placement of citizens and interest groups in the two-dimensional space (based on activities).

Figure A1. Overall placement of citizens, interest groups (based on activities), and political parties in the two-dimensional space.