Manifesto Project Main Dataset (Party Preferences)

Manifesto Project Dataset (version 2025a)

Lehmann, Pola / Franzmann, Simon / Al-Gaddooa, Denise / Burst, Tobias / Ivanusch, Christoph / Regel, Sven / Riethmüller, Felicia / Volkens, Andrea / Weßels, Bernhard / Zehnter, Lisa (2025): The Manifesto Data Collection. Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR). Version 2025a. Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) / Göttingen: Institut für Demokratieforschung (IfDem). https://doi.org/10.25522/manifesto.mpds.2025a

Statistics             Elections: 877   Parties: 1412   Manifestos: 5285

Dataset               stata13 stata14 spss csv xlsx

Documentation  Codebook Coding Instructions List of Coded Documents (incl. Titles) (CSV)

Parties                List (PDF) List – Short (CSV) List – Long (CSV) Lists of Political Parties (Codebook)

Notes                   Release Notes (PDF)

Citation               copy to clipboard txt bibtex ris