Publications (52)


Year Citation
2012 Werner, A., & Lacewell, O. P. (2012). Programmatic Supply and the Autonomy of US State Parties in 2008 and 2010. Regional \&Amp; Federal Studies, 5(22), 533–552. doi: 10.1080/13597566.2012.725657
2016 Merz, N., Regel, S., & Lewandowski, J. (2016). The Manifesto Corpus: A new resource for research on political parties and quantitative text analysis. Research And Politics, 3(2), 2053168016643346. doi: 10.1177/2053168016643346
2017 Merz, N. (2017). Gaining voice in the mass media: The effect of parties’ strategies on party–issue linkages in election news coverage. Acta Politica, 52(4), 436–460. doi: 10.1057/s41269-016-0026-9
2018 Lehmann, P., & Zobel, M. (2018). Positions and saliency of immigration in party manifestos: A novel dataset using crowd coding. European Journal Of Political Research, 0(0). doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12266
2023 Ivanusch, C., Zehnter, L., & Burst, T. (2023). Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021. Electoral Studies, 86, 102703. doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102703
2012 Brunsbach, S., John, S., & Werner, A. (2012). The Supply Side of Second Order Elections. Comparing German National and European Election Manifestos. German Politics, 1(21), 91–115. doi: 10.1080/09644008.2012.655024
2025 Ivanusch, C. (2025). Same same or different? Party competition in multi-channel communication environments (PhD thesis). Retrieved from https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/33132
2013 Regel, S. (2013). Data Entry and Access: Introducing the Manifesto Project Database (MPDb ). In Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts III. Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts (Volkens, Andrea, Judith Bara, Ian Budge, Michael D. McDonald, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, pp. 195–209). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013 Merz, N., & Regel, S. (2013). What are Manifestos for? Selecting and Typing Documents in the Database. In Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts III. Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts (Volkens, Andrea, Judith Bara, Ian Budge, Michael D. McDonald, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, pp. 169–194). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013 Merz, N., & Regel, S. (2013). Die Programmatik der Parteien. In O. Niedermayer (Ed.), Handbuch Parteienforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
2019 Lehmann, P., Matthieß, T., & Regel, S. (2019). Rechts der anderen. Themen und Positionen der AFD im Parteienwettbewerb. In W. Schröder & B. Weßels (Eds.), Smarte Spalter. Die AfD zwischen Bewegung und Parlament (pp. 122–143). Bonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz. Retrieved from https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/fulltext/fodk-vt/2019/f-22493.pdf
2024 Franzmann, S. T., Kasten, N., & Hensel, A. (2024). (K)ein Lückenfüller?: Zu Profil und Programm der neuen Partei Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW). In Forschungs- und Dokumentationsstelle zur Analyse politischer und religiöser Extremismen in Niedersachsen (FoDEx) (Ed.), Demokratie-Dialog: Werkstattbericht FoDEx (pp. 12–26). Göttingen: Göttingen University Press. doi: 10.17875/gup2024-2629
2011 Brunsbach, S., John, S., Volkens, A., & Werner, A. (2011). Wahlprogramme im Vergleich. In J. Tenscher (Ed.), Superwahljahr 2009. Vergleichende Analysen aus Anlass der Wahlen zum Deutschen Bundestag und zum Europäischen Parlament (Tenscher, Jens, pp. 41–64). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
2021 Abou-Chadi, T., & Krause, W. (2021). The Supply Side: Mainstream Right Party Policy Positions in a Changing Political Space in Western Europe. In T. Bale & C. Rovira Kaltwasser (Eds.), Riding the Populist Wave (1st ed., pp. 67–90). Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009006866.004
2025 Weßels, B., & Rose, R. (2025). European Public Opinion about Security: Who Can Help Us in a Threatening World? (1st ed. 2025). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
2013 Volkens, A., Bara, J., Budge, I., McDonald, M. D., & Klingemann, H.-D. (Eds.). (2013). Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts. Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2024 Matthieß, T. (2024). Retrospective Pledge Voting and Political Accountability: The Costs of Broken Promises. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-54291-6
2022 Lehmann, P., Matthieß, T., Regel, S., & Weßels, B. (2022). Die Ampelkoalition: wie wird aus unterschiedlichen Zielen ein gemeinsames Regierungsprogramm? Bielefeld: transcript. doi: 10.14361/9783839463321
2025 Zehnter, L. (2025). Wer ist das Volk? Analyzing and Understanding Populist Political Communication (PhD thesis). Retrieved from https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/33724
2018 Merz, N. (2018). The Manifesto-Media Link: How Mass Media Mediate Manifesto Messages (PhD thesis). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18863
2019 Döring, H., & Regel, S. (2019). Party Facts: A database of political parties worldwide. Party Politics, 1–13. doi: 10.1177/1354068818820671
2020 Matthieß, T. (2020). Retrospective pledge voting: A comparative study of the electoral consequences of government parties’ pledge fulfilment. European Journal Of Political Research. doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12377
2024 Ivanusch, C. (2024). Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets. European Journal Of Political Research, 1475–6765.12729. doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12729
2024 Ivanusch, C. (2024). Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels. West European Politics, 1–27. doi: 10.1080/01402382.2024.2322234
2020 Krause, W. (2020). Strukturiert sozioökonomische Ungleichheit die Legitimitätswahrnehmungen und Wahlentscheidungen der Bürgerinnen? In S. Kneip, W. Merkel, & B. Weßels (Eds.), Legitimitätsprobleme (pp. 125–152). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-29558-5_6
2024 Schoen, H., & Weßels, B. (2024). Die Bundestagswahl 2021 – Rückblick und Ausblick. In H. Schoen & B. Weßels (Eds.), Wahlen und Wähler (pp. 3–25). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-42694-1_1
2024 Ivanusch, C. (2024). Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 49(1), 203–221. doi: 10.1111/lsq.12421
2024 Lehmann, P., & Zehnter, L. (2024). The Self-Proclaimed Defender of Freedom: The AfD and the Pandemic. Government And Opposition, 59(4), 1109–1127. doi: 10.1017/gov.2022.5
2022 Weßels, B. (2022). Leaving the Space—Opening the Gap?: Electoral Effects of Parties’ and Voters’ Repositioning. In R. Schmitt-Beck, S. Roßteutscher, H. Schoen, B. Weßels, & C. Wolf (Eds.), The Changing German Voter (1st ed., pp. 50–77). Oxford University PressOxford. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198847519.003.0003
2015 Volkens, A., Ares, C., Bratanova, R., & Kaftan, L. (2015). Análisis de contenido de textos con referencias al Manifesto Project (2000-2015): temas, actores, y métodos para medir preferencias políticas. RIPS: Revista De Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas, 14(2). doi: 10.15304/rips.14.2.2895
1995 Weßels, B. (1995). Evaluations of the EC: Elite or Mass-Driven? In O. Niedermayer & R. Sinnott (Eds.), Public Opinion and Internationalized Governance (pp. 137–162). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014 Weßels, B., & Schmitt, H. (2014). Meaningful Choices: Does Parties' Supply Matter? In J. Thomassen (Ed.), Elections and Democracy. Representation and Accountability (pp. 38–59). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2017 Klingemann, Hans-Dieter, Gancheva, Darina, & Weßels, Bernhard. (2017). Ideological Congruence: Choice, Visibility and Clarity. In Harfst, Philipp, Kubbe, Ina, & Poguntke, Thomas (Eds.), Parties, Governments and Elites: The Comparative Study of Democracy (pp. 51–70). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
2015 Giebler, H., Lacewell, O. P., Regel, S., & Werner, A. (2015). Niedergang oder Wandel? In W. Merkel (Ed.), Demokratie und Krise (pp. 181–219). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-05945-3_7
2018 Abou-Chadi, T., & Krause, W. (2018). The Causal Effect of Radical Right Success on Mainstream Parties’ Policy Positions: A Regression Discontinuity Approach. British Journal Of Political Science, 1–19. doi: 10.1017/S0007123418000029
2013 Lehmann, P., & Schulze, H. (2013). Evaluating Congruence Measures Comparatively. In Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts III. Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts (Volkens, Andrea, Judith Bara, Ian Budge, Michael D. McDonald, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, p. 277−298). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013 Bara, J., & Volkens, A. (2013). Agents of Representation: Extending MARPOR to Latin America. In Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts III. Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts (Volkens, Andrea, Judith Bara, Ian Budge, Michael D. McDonald, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, p. 277−298). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2015 Volkens, A., & Merz, N. (2015). Verschwinden die programmatischen Alternativen? In W. Merkel (Ed.), Demokratie und Krise (pp. 95–126). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-05945-3_4
2015 Lehmann, P., Regel, S., & Schlote, S. (2015). Ungleichheit in der politischen Repräsentation. In W. Merkel (Ed.), Demokratie und Krise (pp. 157–180). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-05945-3_6
2015 Newton, K., & Merz, N. (2015). Regieren die Medien? In W. Merkel (Ed.), Demokratie und Krise (pp. 439–471). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-05945-3_15
2014 Wagner, A., Lehmann, P., Regel, S., & Schultze, H. (2014). Räumliche Modelle des Repräsentationsgefühls. Vergleichende Analysen mit Fokus auf die Bundestagswahl 2009. Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 8(1), 29–56. doi: 10.1007/s12286-014-0180-2
2013 Lacewell, O. P., & Werner, A. (2013). Divided We Fall? Polarization in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. In C. Bieber & K. Kamps (Eds.), Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2012 Analysen der Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH.
2013 Giebler, H., Lacewell, O. P., Regel, S., & Annika, W. (2013). Mythos 'Volkspartei'. Was niemals war, kann kaum verschwinden. WZB-Mitteilungen, 139, 17–21.
2015 Merz, N. (2015). Wie haben die Parteien auf die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise reagiert? Eine Untersuchung der Thematisierungsstrategien europäischer Parteien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Deutschlands. In H. Giebler & A. Wagner (Eds.), Wirtschaft, Krise und Wahlverhalten. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
2013 Lehmann, P., Regel, S., & Schlote, S. (2013). Alles in allem funktioniert's. Die Armen sind im Parlament (noch) repräsentiert, WZB-Mitteilungen(139), 22–24.
2012 Alonso, S., Volkens, A., & Gómez, B. (2012). Análisis de contenido de textos políticos. Madrid: CIS.
2012 Alonso, S., Volkens, A., & Gómez, B. (2012). Content-analyzing political texts. Madrid: CIS.
2019 Krause, W. (2019). Appearing Moderate or Radical? Radical Left Party Success and the Two-Dimensional Political Space. West European Politics, Online First, 1–23. doi: 10.1080/01402382.2019.1672019
2019 Krause, W., & Giebler, H. (2019). Shifting Welfare Policy Positions: The Impact of Radical Right Populist Party Success Beyond Migration Politics. Representation, Online First, 1–18. doi: 10.1080/00344893.2019.1661871
2005 Aarts, K., & Weßels, B. (2005). Electoral Turnout. In J. Thomassen (Ed.), The European Voter. A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies (pp. 64–83). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2005 Aarts, K., & Weßels, B. (2005). Wahlbeteiligung in Deutschland und bei europäischen Nachbarn. In J. W. Falter, O. W. Gabriel, & B. Weßels (Eds.), Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2002 (pp. 595–617). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
2015 Lewandowski, J., Merz, N., Regel, S., & Lehmann, P. (2015, May). manifestoR: Access and Process Data and Documents of the Manifesto Project. Retrieved from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/manifestoR/index.html