Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/172197 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] Research & Politics [ISSN:] 2053-1680 [Volume:] 3 [Issue:] 2 (April-June) [Publisher:] Sage [Place:] London [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-8
Publisher: 
Sage, London
Abstract: 
This article presents a digital, open-access, multilingual, annotated corpus of electoral programs. It complements the recent methodological innovations in (semi-) computerized content analysis by providing a large, standardized text corpus for the political science community. The corpus is based on the collection of the Manifesto Project, which comprises of (at the time of writing) the largest hand-annotated text corpus of electoral programs available. Since 2009 the project’s costly and time-intensive procedure of collecting and coding documents has been fully digitized. As a result, it now provides more than 1800 machine readable documents from 40 different countries. Six hundred of these documents contain content-analyzed annotations at the level of single (quasi-) sentences, which correspond to the Manifesto Project coding scheme. Additionally, the corpus will continually be extended by incorporating new elections and digitizing older documents. The database also provides meta-information for each document (eg. party, election, language, etc.) that allow it to be referenced back to the Manifesto Dataset. The corpus is stored in a standardized format in an online database, and an API and R package (manifestoR) guarantee easy access.
Subjects: 
electoral programs
text corpus
R package
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Article
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Published Version

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