Manifesto Project Database

The Manifesto Project Database (MPD) is the full database of political manifestos as well as election performance compiled by the Manifesto Research on Political Representation (MARPOR) project (MARPOR), formerly known as the Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP).[1] It is maintained on the website of the Social Science Research Center Berlin in Germany. It claims to be based on "quantitative content analyses of parties’ election programmes from more than 50 countries covering all free, democratic elections since 1945."[1]

History

The Manifesto Project Database grew out of the work of the Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP), started before 2003. In 2003, Hans-Dieter Klingemann of Social Science Research Center Berlin received the American Political Science Association's Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award for the project.[1][2]

Since October 2009, the Manifesto Project has been financed by a long-term funding grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to the Manifesto Research on Political Representation (MARPOR) project to update and make available manifesto texts and content-analytical data to the scientific community.[1]

Reception

Academic reception

The Manifesto Project can be considered one of the most widely used and influential comparative datasets in political science; its importance was recognized in 2003 by the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award of the American Political Science Association for best data set in political science.

There has been considerable academic research identifying potential problems with using the Manifesto Project Database (also referred to in the literature as the Comparative Manifestos Project) and ways to correct for it.[3][4][5][6]

Data from the Manifesto Project Database has also been referenced in research on the policy preferences of voters.[7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Information". Retrieved June 21, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Organized Section Awards: Comparative Politics Organized Section: Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award Recipients". Retrieved June 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ Mikhaylov, Slava; Laver, Michael; Benoit, Kenneth R. (Winter 2012). "Coder reliability and misclassification in the human coding of party manifestos". Political Analysis (Oxford Journals) 20 (1): 78–91. doi:10.1093/pan/mpr047. Pdf.
  4. ↑ Gemenis, Kostas (April 2013). "What to do (and not to do) with the comparative manifestos project data". Political Studies, special issue: Online Only Supplement on Parties and Elections (Wiley) 61 (s1): 3–23. doi:10.1111/1467-9248.12015. (published online March 18, 2013)
  5. ↑ Hansen, Martin Ejnar (May 2008). "Back to the archives? A critique of the Danish part of the manifesto dataset". Scandinavian Political Studies (Wiley) 31 (2): 201–216. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9477.2008.00202.x. Pdf.
  6. ↑ Benoit, Kenneth; Laver, Michael; Mikhaylov, Slava (2007). "Mapping policy preferences with uncertainty: measuring and correcting error in comparative manifesto project estimates" (pdf). Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 30 August - 2 September 2007, Chicago, USA. (Unpublished)
  7. ↑ Ezrow, Lawrence (February 2007). "The variance matters: how party systems represent the preferences of voters". The Journal of Politics (Chicago Journals) 69 (1): 182–192. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2508.2007.00503.x. JSTOR 10.1111/j.1468-2508.2007.00503.x. Pdf.
  8. ↑ König, Thomas; Luig, Bernd (December 2012). "Party ideology and legislative agendas: estimating contextual policy positions for the study of EU decision-making". European Union Politics (Sage) 13 (4): 604–625. doi:10.1177/1465116512444322. Pdf.

External links

Official website

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