Scope, Range, and Extent of Manifesto Project Data Usage: a New Research Tool for Manifesto Project Database’s Users

Volkens, Andrea; Ares, Cristina; Bratanova, Radostina; Kaftan, Lea

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“…To examine the relationship between women's descriptive representation and parties’ policy statements, we use Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) data (Budge et al ; Klingemann et al ; Volkens et al ) to develop three outcome variables directly related to our hypotheses. The CMP measures the percentage of statements parties include on their manifestos in 56 different policy arenas, which we collapse into 42 non‐directional issues (Greene ).…”

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Diverse parties, diverse agendas? Female politicians and the parliamentary party's role in platform formation

Greene

O’Brien

2016

European Journal of Political Research

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Parties’ parliamentary delegations contain a multitude of interests. While scholars suspect that this variation affects party behaviour, most work on parties’ policy statements treats parties as unitary actors. This reflects the absence of strong expectations concerning when (and how) the parliamentary caucus matters for platform construction, as well as the difficulties inherent in testing such claims. Drawing on the literature on women's descriptive representation, this article argues that the makeup of the parliamentary party likely has important consequences for issue entrepreneurship, the scope of issues represented on the manifesto and even the left‐right position of election platforms. With the most comprehensive party‐level study of women's representation ever conducted, three diversity hypotheses are tested using data on the gender makeup of parties’ parliamentary delegations and the content of their manifestos for 110 parties in 20 democracies between 1952 and 2011. The analyses show that as the percentage of women in the parliamentary party increases, parties address a greater diversity of issues in their election campaigns. Women's presence is also associated with more left‐leaning manifestos, even when controlling for parties’ prior ideological positions. Together, these findings illustrate a previously overlooked consequence of descriptive representation and provide a framework for understanding when and why the parliamentary party influences manifesto formation. They show that diversity – or lack thereof – has important consequences for parties’ policy statements, and thus the overall quality of representation.

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“…According to our data, for example, the German Free Democratic Party introduced the anti‐imperialism topic into the electoral arena for the first time in 1976. Prior to that election, no other German manifesto included this issue area, which captures negative references to ‘imperial behaviour’ (Volkens et al ).…”

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Diverse parties, diverse agendas? Female politicians and the parliamentary party's role in platform formation

Greene

O’Brien

2016

European Journal of Political Research

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“…1 Our dependent variable is derived from the left-right position of a party based on the most recent data from the CMP/MARPOR project (Budge, Klingemann, et al, 2001;Klingemann et al, 2006;Volkens et al, 2015). More precisely, we use changes in the absolute value of parties' left-right position as a measure of policy moderation.…”

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Moderate as Necessary: The Role of Electoral Competitiveness and Party Size in Explaining Parties’ Policy Shifts

Abou-Chadi

Orlowski

2016

The Journal of Politics

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This article investigates how the degree of electoral competition affects parties' policy positions. It follows a growing body of research on party positioning in multiparty competition that regards elections as signals for parties that have to choose their positions and issue strategies. In this article we argue that previous elections provide information about the competitiveness of the upcoming election. The expected degree of electoral competition affects parties' future policy positions since with increasing competitiveness of an election, parties have higher incentives to move toward a vote-maximizing position. However, what constitutes a vote-maximizing strategy varies between parties. While large mainstream parties have an incentive to moderate their positions, small and niche parties choose more extreme positions to distinguish themselves from their mainstream competitors. Applying a novel measure of electoral competitiveness, we find that the degree of electoral competition indeed determines parties' policy shifts, but that this effect is moderated by party size. AbstractThis paper investigates how the degree of electoral competition affects parties'

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“…The parties have certain differences in their established policies and how they approach free markets and environmental protection in general. Data from the Comparative Manifesto Project (Volkens et al ) (see Table ) sums up how often the parties state support for, among other variables, a free market economy and environmental protection in their electoral manifestoes. According to these data, the Norwegian party is clearly most concerned with free markets, followed by the U.S. Republican Party, while the Swedish party is most devoted to environmental protection.…”

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More than Markets: A Comparative Study of Nine Conservative Parties on Climate Change

Båtstrand

2015

Politics & Policy

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Cross‐national comparisons of proposed policies of individual parties are an underdeveloped part of the literature on environmental politics in general and climate politics in particular. Although conservative parties are portrayed as skeptical toward adopting climate measures or even supposed to ignore climate change, this study of nine conservative electoral manifestoes nevertheless finds that most of them support climate measures, even in the form of state interventions in the market economy. Market measures are not as dominating as could be expected, but a clear finding is that available fossil reserves seem to have an influence on conservative climate politics. The U.S. Republican Party is an anomaly in denying anthropogenic climate change. Conservative parties as such are not in opposition to climate policies, but the pro‐business position is evident in that conservative parties do not challenge coal or petroleum in countries with large reserves of these resources. Related Articles Related Media Link TV. . “A Conservative on Climate Change.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSGiv60PBd8 Science for the Public. . “Creating Public Doubt about Scientific Facts.” With Naomi Oreskes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaGiIhH7lAI ABC. . “Why We Disagree about Climate Change.” With Mike Hulme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqJVHzxWQDU

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Scope, Range, and Extent of Manifesto Project Data Usage: a New Research Tool for Manifesto Project Database’s Users

Cited by 105 publications

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Diverse parties, diverse agendas? Female politicians and the parliamentary party's role in platform formation

Diverse parties, diverse agendas? Female politicians and the parliamentary party's role in platform formation

Moderate as Necessary: The Role of Electoral Competitiveness and Party Size in Explaining Parties’ Policy Shifts

More than Markets: A Comparative Study of Nine Conservative Parties on Climate Change

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