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The ManifestoVault repository the full texts of national-level general election manifestos at a natural-sentence level of 43 political parties from Germany, Ireland, and the UK from 1970-2024. Our aim is to provide clean and accurate (as much as possible) full-text versions of election manifestos to facilitate all scholarly research for which parties’ election manifestos are relevant. [link]

Citation: Dolinsky, A.O.; Huber, L.M.; Horne, W., 2024. “ManifestoVault V1.0: Annotated full-text general election manifestos at the natural-sentence level of three European countries 1970-2025”, https://doi.org/10.34894/VKQSPO, DataverseNL, V5


The Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset (PGAD) 269 party-year data points on group appeals from parties’ names, manifestos, and print campaign ads (a single party in each election is the unit of observation). In total, the data cover all 69 parties that gained seats in 24 Israeli and Dutch general elections between 1977 and 2015. [link]

Citation: Dolinsky, A.O., 2022. “PGAD – Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NZQGST, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:xBsT/Yfi7i5AAwi8M8LKlw== [fileUNF]