NieKom. Eine neue Datenbasis für die kommunale Wahl- und Policyforschung in Niedersachsen

Jankowski, Michael; Juen, Christina-Marie; Erlbruch, Florian; Tepe, Markus

doi:10.3224/dms.v12i2.14

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“…Yet, this data collection effort was only possible because of a PhD project (Gross 2016 ) and an externally funded project on local election results in the German state of Lower Saxony (Jankowski et al. 2019 ), where a couple of student assistants—and even students in their own free time—helped in collecting the manifestos. Even though to some degree older local election manifestos can be found via archived versions of municipal and party websites, this is not doable for smaller municipalities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the largest municipalities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, at least the collection and storage of local party manifestos (and local coalition agreements) for the most recent local elections-and for the large cities in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia even going back until the early 1990s-have been secured via the Local Manifesto Project (see Gross and Jankowski 2020). Yet, this data collection effort was only possible because of a PhD project (Gross 2016) and an externally funded project on local election results in the German state of Lower Saxony (Jankowski et al 2019), where a couple of student assistants-and even students in their own free time-helped in collecting the manifestos. Even though to some degree older local election manifestos can be found via archived versions of municipal and party websites, this is not doable for smaller municipalities.…”

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Studying politics at the local level in Germany: a tale of missing data

2023

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What are the strategies of political parties in multi-level government systems and how do voters respond to these strategies? At the national and state level, many researchers have worked with data from party manifestos, candidate lists, party press releases, parliamentary questions, and parliamentary speeches. At the local level, these standard components of the political science toolbox are not available to researchers in many countries—including Germany. The absence of these data means that politics at the local level remains chronically understudied. In this research note, we draw attention to the dearth of data when studying local politics and the questions that we cannot answer as a result. Specifically, we document our failed attempt to collect local party manifestos in smaller municipalities which would have been the basis for an analysis of political parties’ strategies in response to the lowering of voting ages in local elections in German states. We point to examples from other countries that show that it does not have to be this way.

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confidence: 99%