Measuring Populism and Euroscepticism with surveys: The DATAPOPEU Political Compass

For many years studies on populism and euroscepticism operated predominantly on the basis of applying text analysis methods on party manifestos and speeches by party leaders. Only recently, there have been studies that try to cover both the supply and the demand side of populism and euroscepticism by including batteries of items in survey questionnaires, while there is also an increasing number of expert surveys focusing on both research directions At the focus of the DATAPOPEU Research Project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation is the interplay between populism and euroscepticism. In this paper, we examine the survey items that have been used in several surveys for various target groups (voters, candidates and experts) within the DATAPOPEU project and we present the Populism and Euroscepticism Political Compass that is based on a selection of the best survey items. This is a web tool that people all over the world can use to find their own position on the populist scale while people who live in one of the EU member states or who are interested in the EU can use it to find their position both on the Populism and on the Euroscepticism scale.