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📘 What can party manifestos tell us about party competition across democracies? Our latest MEDem Data Network Focus spotlights the @manifestoproj.bsky.social with insights from Pola Lehmann (@wzb.bsky.social) and Simon Franzmann (@uni-goettingen.de). Read more: www.medem.eu/medem-data-n...

Pola Lehmann (Manifesto Project) contributed an article on Party Manifestos to this wonderful new encyclopedia (⤵️) 📚 - even available #OpenAccess 🔑 via this link: hdl.handle.net/10419/335050 For anyone interested in the function, relevance, and study of party manifestos, make sure to have a look!

Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄

What do 2 million, 286 and 1979 have to do with party manifestos? Shortly before Christmas, the new issue of the @wzb.bsky.social-Mitteilungen came out. This issue's topic: "Numbers".📊 We are happy to contribute an article on 50 years of manifesto research: bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025...

📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428... Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️

I've just updated my visualisation of the @manifestoproj.bsky.social data to include the latest release, including last year's UK election. There is also a new page which compares patterns across countries. It’s available here… public.tableau.com/views/Democr...

📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2025 is here! What's new? 🧵:

Wondering who populists mean exactly when they say "the people"? 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 Brand-new research by our fellow @tiondelisa.bsky.social examines this question. Check out the link (#OpenAccess) and thread with the most important results below ⤵️

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Last week, @feliciarthm.bsky.social and Simon Franzmann (both MARPOR) published a new paper on the supply-side dynamics of parties' group appeals! 🔔 Check out the link (#OpenAccess) and thread below:

We argue that the politicisation of the EU issue, has intensified partisan conflict in these countries, and that these changes in EU polarisation have influenced public attitudes towards European integration. We calculate EU polarisation using data from the @manifestoproj.bsky.social .

Grateful for this write up of our newest WZB working paper in SPIEGEL magazine on the state of the local "firewall" in Germany against the Radical right. Short message: it endured pretty well until 2024. What's next? There the picture is likely less positive. bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/v25...

@mikec42.bsky.social's visualization of our data via @tableaupublic.bsky.social has been updated! A great way to get an overview about trends and long-term developments in party competition 📈 Access it here: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Die Koalitionsverhandlungen laufen: In einem Gastbeitrag für die @zeit.de zeigt die Manifesto-Analyse, wo die Parteien im politischen Raum stehen und was von Schwarz-Rot zu erwarten ist. Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Sicherheit – wo gibt es Gemeinsamkeiten, wo sind Gräben? www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Zeugnis eines Bruchs: Die Ampelkoalition auf #Facebook in der Manifesto-Analyse Pola Lehmann & @hdnrch.bsky.social @manifestoproj.bsky.social haben analysiert, wie sich die Ampel-Abgeordneten in den Regierungsjahren auf Facebook verhielten & sich dabei aufeinander bezogen. www.wzb.eu/de/forschung...

Marpor goes live: Die Bundestagswahl mit @tiondelisa.bsky.social im Twitchstream der ARD!

Gesellschaftspolitische Verschiebung zur Mitte und nach rechts? Eine Analyse zu den Entwicklungen der deutschen Parteipositionen wirft einen Blick darauf - mit unseren neuen Daten zu den Wahlprogrammen 2025 in der @zeit.de 📈

"Kompromiss"🤝- ein Wort, das wir nach der Bundestagswahl 2025 noch oft hören werden. Pola Lehmann, Leiterin des Manifesto-Projekts, hat mit @derstandard.at über die Bedeutung pol. Kompromisse gesprochen: (Pola Lehmann on the importance of compromise in politics:) www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Yesterday's post in English ⤵️ 🗳️ On Feb 23, Germany goes to the polls. While migration & asylum dominate the public debate, a deeper look into party manifestos seems imperative. Which issues do parties prioritize? Our 2nd blog post in @wzb.bsky.social "Werkstatt Wahlen"! #ManifestoMonday

Am 23.02. ist Bundestagswahl in Deutschland. 🗳️Während die Themen Migration & Asyl die öffentl. Debatte dominieren, lohnt sich ein Blick in die Wahlprogramme. Welche Themen rücken die Parteien dort in den Vordergrund? Unser 2. Blogpost in der „Werkstatt Wahlen“ des @wzb.bsky.social #ManifestoMonday

Wie positionieren sich das BSW, die Linke und die AfD? Anekdotische Evidenz und "Wahlprogramm-Analysen" gibt es derzeit viele, aber oft wenig systematisch .. Großer Dank an das @manifestoproj.bsky.social, das die vollständigen Wahlprogramme in so kurzer Zeit analysiert hat 👏🏻🥁

Wer unsere gestrige #manifestomonday -Analyse nochmal in Langform lesen möchte: Unsere ersten Beobachtungen, basierend auf brandneuen Auswertungen der Wahlprogramme zur diesjährigen #Bundestagswahl2025, sind nun bei der "Werkstatt Wahlen" des @wzb.bsky.social zu lesen! 🔬📊 wzb.eu/de/forschung...

On Feb 23, 2025, Germany will hold early elections. How do parties position themselves & which issues do they prioritize? We’ve hurried to analyse their manifestos in time & our 1st blog post is online! Today’s focus: Germany’s challenger parties! #manifestomonday (EN below) wzb.eu/de/forschung...

Am 23. Februar 2025 ist Bundestagswahl in Deutschland – sieben Monate früher als geplant. Wie positionieren sich die Parteien ideologisch, und welche Themen stehen im Fokus? Unser erster Blogpost dazu erscheint morgen! Im Fokus: die Herausfordererparteien! Zum #ManifestoMonday ein kleiner Teaser:

We're currently working intensively on analysing the party manifestos for Germany's upcoming 2025 general election.✍️ @feliciarthm.bsky.social already discusses first observations in this new podcast episode by @forumwissen.bsky.social. Give it a listen and stay tuned for more analyses to come!

We love to see exciting analyses like these with #manifestoberta 👇

Fast alle der größeren Parteien haben nun ihre Wahlprogramme zur Bundestagswahl 2025 beschlossen. Aber: Warum eigentlich Wahlprogramme, wer liest die überhaupt? Darüber hat @feliciarthm.bsky.social mit "nd die Woche" gesprochen: www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1188...

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Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht für die Mitarbeit am Lehrstuhl für Parteien - und Politische Kulturforschung sowie im Manifesto-Projekt (@manifestoproj.bsky.social)! Wir freuen uns auf Bewerbungen interessierter Studierender bis zum 01.12.2024 📬 Alles Infos hier ⤵️

🧵 Policy shifts and polarization – a manifesto perspective on today’s #USelections2024. As the presidential race draws to a close, we have annotated and analysed the policy platforms that the Democratic and Republican parties’ have published ahead of the elections:

Publication alert 🥳 A new study by our (former) fellow Christoph ivanusch analyses tweets and press releases and shows that parties' issue engagement varies between these channels! Open access here 📖🔑: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ManifestoMonday is back with a new edition on the upcoming national elections in Austria. In a blog post for @derstandardat.bsky.social, our research fellow Christoph Ivanusch takes you through the parties’ manifestos: derstandard.at/story/300000... (German) We summarize the results in this🧵 1/7:

Both our manifestoberta models (sentence + context) have been retrained on our updated corpus (2024a). Find the new manifestoberta versions (2024.1.1) on @huggingface.bsky.social: : huggingface.co/manifesto-pr... huggingface.co/manifesto-pr...

Which political messages make it into the media? In a recent blog post for @derstandardat.bsky.social, our research fellow Christoph Ivanusch (together w. Paul Balluf) shares their findings on the interplay of various areas of party communication. Read it here (German): shorturl.at/pJRbW

You have a manifesto not yet annotated by us? You want to learn how to automatedly annotate texts with our categories? Check out the newest addition to our "Tutorials"-section.💡 We run you through each step of applying our manifestoberta LLM in Python. manifesto-project.wzb.eu/tutorials/ma...

📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2024 is here! What's new? 🧵:

Only six days left until the election of the EU-Parliament in Germany! ⏰ Time to take a closer look at the governments in the European Council (EC) using data from the Manifesto Project (manifesto-project.wzb.eu) and from PPEG (ppeg.wzb.eu). (1/11) #ManifestoMonday

Last week, German populist radical right AfD was excluded from the ID party group in the EUParl. French RN, Italian Lega and Belgian VB, among others, supported the move, whereas e.g. FPÖ voted against. This shake-up uncovers ideological splits within the ID – but how generalizable are these? 1/9

Fascinating analysis by @fabianhabersack.bsky.social , who uses our language model "manifestoberta" to classify the Austrian and European parties' manifestos as we approach European Elections 2024 🗳️ next month! 👇

On today’s ManifestoMonday, we will turn to insights into a new political force in Germany, which could enter the European parliament. The BSW, a splinter from the German Left party, is currently polling at 5%. A thread on their national and European positions 🧵 :

Manifesto Monday 📊: Following last week's intro to the salience and position of the EU in national manifestos across the EU, we now turn our attention to Germany. Today we compare parties and their voters. 1/10

📣 Servicepost: We as Manifesto Project collect only national election manifestos. For 🇪🇺 manifestos, make sure to check out the related Euromanifesto Project over at: search.gesis.org/research_dat..., for instance.

The upcoming EP elections are the ideal opportunity for us as Manifesto Project to look at political parties' attitudes towards the #EU. In the first of a series of threads, we investigate the salience of and positions on in national election manifestos from 1945 until today:

📊 'Manifesto Monday' is back for 2024’s ‘super election year’: Starting with the EU Elections 2024, we will do a little series of threads on issues, programs, and positions throughout the year...

On April 12, @wzb.bsky.social hosted a ceremony in honor of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels, who will retire at the end of September after >35 years at the WZB. Longstanding companions paid tribute to his research on democracy, elections, and parties, and his commitment in numerous large-scale projects.

Bavaria's & Hesse's ban on gender-inclusive language reignited a debate about who gets to be represented in pol. communication. In a new contribution to the @wzb.bsky.social-Mitteilungen,@tiondelisa.bsky.social & @feliciarthm.bsky.social show how German party manifestos address gender differently:

Das Genderverbot in Bayern & Hessen hat die Debatte, wer in pol. Kommunikation abgebildet sein soll, neu entfacht. Im neuen Beitrag zu den @wzb.bsky.social-Mitteilungen zeigen @tiondelisa.bsky.social & @feliciarthm.bsky.social, wie dt. Parteien Geschlechter in ihren Wahlprogr. ansprechen. ⤵️ 1/4

Is the far right gaining traction in Europe? How have parties' positions changed over time? German newspaper "Der Spiegel" provides current insights and visualisations based on Manifesto project data. 📈👇 www.spiegel.de/politik/euro...