Manifesto Project Main Dataset (Party Preferences)

Manifesto Project Dataset (version 2026a)

Lehmann, Pola / Franzmann, Simon / Al-Gaddooa, Denise / Ivanusch, Christoph / Riethmüller, Felicia / Samstag, Svenja / Volkens, Andrea / Weßels, Bernhard / Zehnter, Lisa (2026): The Manifesto Data Collection. Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR). Version 2026a. Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) / Göttingen: Institut für Demokratieforschung (IfDem). https://doi.org/10.25522/manifesto.mpds.2026a

Statistics             Elections: 884   Parties: 1429   Manifestos: 5330

Dataset               stata13 stata14 spss csv xlsx

Documentation  Codebook Coding Instructions List of Coded Documents (incl. Titles) (CSV)

Parties                List (PDF) List – Short (CSV) List – Long (CSV) Lists of Political Parties (Codebook)

Notes                   Release Notes (PDF)

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