Enriching and empowering its readers, this work gives the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors: parties, governments, and electors in twenty-five democracies over the whole post-war period. It provides a helpful CD-ROM, documentation and suggested uses for data, as well as extensive background information. Economists, socialists, and historians will find the book highly useful; political scientists, policy analysts, rational choice theorists, and comparativists will find it a must.
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`This attractive package... offers a rich mine of information for scholars interested in comparative democratic performance.' Todd Landman, Political Studies
`An important substantive contribution to the field of comparative politics... 100 articles and books have been published that rely on the Manifesto data set.' Gary P. Freeman, Ronald Inglehart, and Michael Alvarez, APSA citation
`Thsi is almost certainly the most professionally run and prestigious content analysis project in Political Science to date.' Michael Laver, Kenneth Benoit, and John Garry, American Political Science Review
`An important substantive contribution to the field of comparative politics... 100 articles and books have been published that rely on the Manifesto data set.' Gary P. Freeman, Ronald Inglehart, and Michael Alvarez, APSA citation
`Thsi is almost certainly the most professionally run and prestigious content analysis project in Political Science to date.' Michael Laver, Kenneth Benoit, and John Garry, American Political Science Review
About the Author
Ian Budge is a Professor of Government, Department of Government, University of Essex. Hans-Dieter Klingemann is Director of research unit for Social Change at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin (WZB) Judith Bara is Research Fellow, University of Essex. Eric Tanenbaum is a Principal Teaching Fellow of Government, University of Sussex.
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The crowing achievement of the Manifesto Research Project has been to measure party policy change in a variety of countries over an extended time period along the Left-Right dimension. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manifesto estimates, manifesto scales, government ideology scores, government policy declarations, manifesto data, voter ideology, expert scales, subtractive measure, saliency theory, manifesto country, ideological volatility, party policy positions, election programmes, median voter position, programmatic data, party positioning, favourable mentions, policy estimates, party mandate, political research, coding instructions, coding frame, expert surveys, government declarations, labour groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, United States, European Community, Manifesto Research Group, Social Democrats, Bad Godesburg, Checking the Party Policy Estimates, Extending Party Estimates, Govt Government, Manifesto Coding Instructions, Social Democratic, The General Inquirer, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Original Documents New!
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The crowing achievement of the Manifesto Research Project has been to measure party policy change in a variety of countries over an extended time period along the Left-Right dimension. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manifesto estimates, manifesto scales, government ideology scores, government policy declarations, manifesto data, voter ideology, expert scales, subtractive measure, saliency theory, manifesto country, ideological volatility, party policy positions, election programmes, median voter position, programmatic data, party positioning, favourable mentions, policy estimates, party mandate, political research, coding instructions, coding frame, expert surveys, government declarations, labour groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, United States, European Community, Manifesto Research Group, Social Democrats, Bad Godesburg, Checking the Party Policy Estimates, Extending Party Estimates, Govt Government, Manifesto Coding Instructions, Social Democratic, The General Inquirer, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Original Documents New!
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- Party Policy and Government Coalitions by M. J. Laver on 7 pages
- The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century" by Daniel Bell on page 36, page 51, and Back Matter
- Theory of Party Competition by David Robertson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Voting and Party Competition: A Theoretical Critique and Synthesis Applied to Surveys from Ten Democracies by Ian Budge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Comparing Government Activity by Louis M. Imbeau in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Political Institutions in Europe by Josep Colomer on page 55, and page 90
- Political Institutions in Europe by Josep Colomer on page 55, and page 90
- Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science) by Michael Laver on page 48, and page 64
- Political Choice in Britain by Harold D. Clarke in Back Matter
- When Majorities Fail: The Russian Parliament, 1990-1993 (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) by Josephine T. Andrews in Back Matter
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