Content analysing multi-level authority and cultural identity claims: a complement to the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) exemplified for Spanish regional manifestos

Abstract: "This handbook describes a specific approach to content analyzing multilevel party manifestos, building on a methodology that was originally developed in the context of the Manifesto Research Group (MRG). Since 1979, the MRG has been collecting and coding election programs with the aim of estimating policy preferences of political parties. The second phase of the project started in 1989. In the context of its 'Comparative Manifestos Project' (CMP), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) provided resources for updating and expanding the MRG data. Since then, country experts were hired to collect and code national election programs according to a handbook that describes how to identify the coding units and how to apply the classification scheme of policy preferences under central supervision. The CMP is solely concerned with national election programs. However, in decentralized political systems, parties also publish local and regional election programs and, in times of glob

Object Details

• Alternative title: Inhaltsanalyse von Mehrebenensystem und Forderungen nach kultureller Identität: eine Ergänzung zu dem Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) am Beispiel spanischer Regionalwahlprogramme
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 79 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Zivilgesellschaft, Konflikte und Demokratie, Abteilung Demokratie: Strukturen, Leistungsprofil und Herausforderungen ; Bd. 2009-202

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2009
• Creator: Volkens, Andrea ; Alonso, Sonia ; Gómez, Braulio
• Contributor: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-197163
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:55 PM CET