The objective of this research note is to introduce Scope, Range, and Extent of Manifesto Project Data Usage (SRE). This is a content analysis of publications that use the Manifesto Project's Database (MANIFESTO Database), its resulting dataset, and a handbook for users and forthcoming coders. Up to now, a total of 273 articles published between 2000 and the first semester of 2015 in eight high-impact journals (
Replicationfiles are available in the JOP Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/jop). The empirical analysis has been successfully replicated by the JOP replication analyst.
Citizens often support politicians who vote against their parties in parliament. They view rebels as offering better representation, appreciate expressive acts, take rebellion as a signal of standing up for constituents, or see rebels as defending their moral convictions. Each explanation has different implications for representation, but they have not yet been tested systematically against one another. We implement survey experiments on nationally representative samples in the UK, Germany, France, and Italy to assess whether voters treat rebellion as a cue for better representation or infer positive character traits implying a valence advantage. Policy congruence does not drive voters’ preference for rebels. However, voters do associate positive traits with rebel MPs, even if they do not feel better represented by them.
En el sitio en Internet de MARPOR ofrecemos la base de datos resultante, los artículos codificados divididos en metodológicos y sustantivos, así como el manual de codificación. SRE aporta una condensada pero exhaustiva revisión de los temas, las dimensiones políticas y los métodos de extracción empleados; los países, los tipos y familias de partidos, los períodos y los actores analizados, así como las críticas y desarrollos de la metodología del Manifesto Project. Esperamos que SRE resulte una herramienta útil para acceder de forma rápida y precisa a la literatura sobre MARPOR, y para conocer distintas posibilidades de uso de sus datos. Pensamos que la nueva base de datos de SRE puede ayudar también a investigadores en busca de información sobre metodología para el análisis de preferencias políticas, o estudios de caso sobre países o regiones concretas. El objetivo del manual de SRE es facilitar las claves de codificación a usuarios y futuros codificadores del proyecto.
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