Welcome to our new database that provides access to the entirety of data and documents that we hold. We continuously import additional files to keep our collection up to date (this applies especially to machine readable texts as well as sentence-based positions). Additionally, we will provide new data error estimates in the near future. If you are using our data or documents please cite according to the hint below.

Measuring Policy Preferences

Since its formation as the Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP), the Manifesto Project has dealt with different aspects of political party performance as well as the structure and development of party systems. The project is based on quantitative content analyses of parties’ election programs from more than 50 countries covering all free, democratic elections since 1945. In 2003, the project received the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) award for the best data set in comparative politics.            Read More
MPPI    Mapping Policy Preferences I 25 countries 364 elections 288 parties 1991 manifestos
MPPII    Mapping Policy Preferences II 48 countries 180 elections 623 parties 1261 manifestos
MPDS2013b    Full Manifesto Project Dataset (version 2013b) 55 countries 638 elections 923 parties 3679 manifestos
Election Coverage: 628 Coded     20 Currently coded     Coding will start soon     54 Planned     23 Not planned     16 Not planned mid-term    

Party Positions

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3658 Positions

Sentence Positions

35 as Data 776 as Scans

Source Documents

1735 Originals

Source Texts

1078 Texts
The project currently facilitates about 2,500 users from more than 750 academic institutions around the globe.
Its data is cited in more than 1,750 papers according to google scholar.

Citation

When using data covered by MPPI or MPPII, please cite the respective books, when using further documents and data not covered by the books (such as the data and document updates), please (unless no further version-specific citation is given) refer to:            Read More
2013 Volkens, Andrea Lehmann, Pola Merz, Nicolas Regel, Sven Werner, Annika with
Lacewell, Onawa Promise Schultze, Henrike

The Manifesto Data Collection. Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR). Version 2013b

Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
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