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Informationen zum Autor The Manifesto Research Group (MRG) and its successors - the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) and Manifesto Research on Political Representation (MARPOR) - is an international project which has been collecting and analysing manifestos and platforms from over fifty post-war democracies for over forty years. It is now housed at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, with a long-term grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Having concentrated previously on OECD, EU and CEE countries, it is now extending its collection to Latin America and beyond. For further information please go to https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Policy targets and political preferences are summarised in documents such as party manifestos. This book describes how these can be analysed quantitatively, by counting sentences devoted to each policy area. The numbers form policy indicators which can be related to government actions and spending. The book discusses problems with such analyses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Introduction: Characterising the Data Correctly in Order to Measure them Accurately PART I: VALIDATED, AUTHORITATIVE, INDISPENSIBLE: THE MANIFESTO ESTIMATES IN POLITICAL RESEARCH 1: Ian Budge and Thomas Meyer: The Best Tools to Tackle the Job 2: Robin E. Best: Using The Manifesto Estimates to Correct Systematic 'Centring' Error in Expert and Electoral Positioning of Parties 3: Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Ian Budge: Using The Manifesto Estimates to Refine Party Family Placements PART II: VALIDITY GUARANTEES RELIABILITY: HIGH RELIABILITY LIMITS ERROR 4: Ian Budge, Michael D. McDonald and Thomas Meyer: Validated Estimates versus Dodgy Adjustments: focusing excessively on Error Distorts Results 5: Ian Budge and Thomas Meyer: Understanding and Validating the Right-Left Scale (RILE) 6: Michael D. McDonald: Measuring Uncertainty and Error Directly From the End-Estimates PART III: DELIVERING QUALITY DATA: COLLECTION, CODING, CONTROLS, COMMUNICATION 7: Ian Budge: Linking Uncertainty Measures to Document Selection and Coding 8: Nicolas Merz and Sven Regel: What are Manifestos for? Selecting and Typing Documents for the Database 9: Onawa P. Lacewell and Annika Werner: Coder Training: Key to Enhancing Coding Reliability and Estimate Validity 10: Sven Regel: Data Entry and Access: Introducing the Manifesto Project Database (MPDb) 11: Simon Franzmann: From Data to Inference and Back Again: Perspectives from Content Analysis PART IV: EXPLOITING THE MULTI-LEVEL ESTIMATES TO STUDY REPRESENTATION COMPARATIVELY 12: Ian Budge and Hans-Dieter Klingemann: Parties and Citizens: Representation over 28 Countries 13: Pola Lehmann and Henrike Schultze: Linking Data-Sets from Party to Individual Levels in order to Evaluate Congruence Measures Comparatively 14: Andrea Volkens and Judith Bara: Presidential versus Parliamentary Representation: Extending Manifesto Estimates to Latin America ...
