SOLUTION CONCEPTS I CREATED:

The Strongly Stable Core. For greater detail, see HeeMin Kim.1995. "The Strongly Stable Core in Weighted Voting Games." Public Choice 84:77-90.

DATA SETS I CREATED (with Richard Fording):

Handbook, The Latest Version of the Manifesto Data (in MS Word Format).
Availabiliy Information, The Kim-Fording Measures (in Excel Format).
The Kim-Fording Measure of Party Ideology (in 25 Western democracies for 1945-1998, in Stata Format).  Cite two EJPR pieces below.  Also see the Codebook under the Kim-Fording Measure of Government Ideology below.

The Kim-Fording Measure of Voter Ideology (Latest Update, in 25 Western Democracies for 1945-2002).  If you use these data, cite HeeMin Kim and Richard C. Fording. 1998. "Voter Ideology in Western Democracies, 1946-1989." European Journal of Political Research 33:73-97 and HeeMin Kim and Richard C. Fording. 2003. "Voter Ideology in Western Democracies: An Update." European Journal of Political Research 42:95-105.

 Notes on Voter Ideology Updates (in MS Word Format)
 The Measure of Voter Ideology (in Excel Format)
 The Measure of Voter Ideology Ideology (in Stata Format)

The similar measures based on slightly different formulae are available in a CD that comes with Ian Budge, et al. Mapping Policy Preferences: Parties, Electors, and Governments, 1945-1998. Oxford University Press, 2001.

The Kim-Fording Measure of Parliament Ideology I  (A Weighted-Mean Version; in Excel Format).
The Kim-Fording Measure of Parliament Ideology II (A Median Version).   If you use these data, cite HeeMin Kim and Richard C. Fording.  "Party Manifesto Data and  Measures of Ideology in Western Democracies." Florida State University and University of Kentucky.

This unpublished manuscript contains details about how we constructed all our ideology measures.  Although we ask you to cite our published articles if you use our data, this manuscript will be handy if you want to see the details of all our ideolgy measures.

The Kim-Fording Measure of Government Ideology (in 25 Western democracies for 1945-1998).  If you use these data, cite HeeMin Kim and Richard C. Fording. 2002. "Government Partisanship in Western Democracies, 1945-1998." European Journal of Political Research 41:165-184.
         The Codebook (in MS Word Format)
           The Measure of Government Ideology (Government by Country, in Stata Format)
           The Measure of Government Ideology (the Full Version, in Stata Format)

The Kim-Fording Measure of Democratic Peformance  (Yearly Data for 25 Western Democracies, 1945-1998. A Dataset in Excel Format).

The Kim-Fording Measures of Parliament Ideology, Government Ideology, and Democratic Performance are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SES-0237820.  Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Scicence Foundation (NSF).