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Replication data for: Analyzing Manifestos in their Electoral Context: A New Approach Applied to Austria, 2002–2008

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Title Replication data for: Analyzing Manifestos in their Electoral Context: A New Approach Applied to Austria, 2002–2008
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27864
 
Creator Dolezal, Martin
Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz
Müller, Wolfgang C.
Winkler, Anna Katharina
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We present a new method to analyze party manifestos to benefit the placement of political parties per se and to advance the study of elections. Our method improves on existing manual coding approaches by (1) generating semantically complete units based on syntax, (2) standardizing units into a subject–predicate–object structure, and (3) employing a fine-grained and flexible hierarchical coding scheme. We evaluate our approach by comparing estimates for the 2002, 2006, and 2008 Austrian national elections with those yielded by previous studies that employ the entire range of available measurement strategies. We also demonstrate how we link our new manifesto data with other kind of data produced in AUTNES, especially mass and elite (party candidate) surveys.
 
Subject party positions
 
Date 2014-11-20