DOI: 10.4232/1.14120
title: European Parliament Election Study 1979-2019, Euromanifesto Study
title: European Parliament Election Study 1979-2019, Euromanifesto Study

description: Vor den Europawahlen von 1979 bis 2019 herausgegebene Parteiprogramme.Der Datensatz enthält eine verkodete Version der Parteiprogramme.
description: Coded version of election programs. Manifestos of relevant parties issued ahead of the European elections between 1979 and 2019.
Topics: Country in which the party ran in European Parliament elections; year of the first European Parliament elections in the member state; year of the country´s admittance to the EG/EU; party ID; election year; initials of the party; name of the party; percent-vote on national level; party family (parliamentary group) a party belongs to; number of seats in European Parliament; number of seats in European Parliament by country; type of manifesto; placement of Euromanifesto according to the coder on a left-right scale, on an environmental protection vs. economic growth scale, on a libertarian-authoritarian scale, on a religious-secular scale, on a state interventionism vs. free enterprise scale, on a multiculturalism vs. ethnocentrism scale, and on a pro-anti-EU-integration scale.
Position in topics: foreign special relationships (general, to eastern European Countries of the EU and not in the EU, to Russia and to the USA); anti-imperialism; military; peace; internationalism; Europe; European Community/European Union; financing the EC/EU; reedom; human rights; democracy; constitutionalism; decentralization; transfer of power to the EC/EU; executive and administrative efficiency; political corruption; political authority; competences of the European Parliament, of the European Commission and of the European Council; voting procedures in the European Council; competences of the uropean Court of Justice and other EC/EU institutions; mentions of the European Central Bank; EC/EU enlargement; membership in the EU of east European countries and of Balkan countries currently not in the EU; membership of Turkey in the EU; complexity of the EC/EU political system; free enterprise; property-restitution; controlled economy; social ownership; mixed economy; publicly-owned industry; socialist property; economic planning; EC/EU structural funds; nationalization; privatisation; corporatism; market egulation; Marxist-analysis; incentives; Keynesian demand management; productivity; technology and infrastructure; protectionism; anti-growth economy; economic orthodoxy; economic goals; creating jobs; labour migration; single market; European monetary union/European currency; environmental protection; culture; social justice; welfare state, pensions, health care and nursing service, social housing, child care, job programs; education; multiculturalism; traditional morality; law and order; fight against terrorism; social harmony; national way of life; immigration; EU integration; labour groups; agriculture and farmers; middle class and professional groups; underprivileged minority groups (handicapped, homosexuals, immigrants and foreigners in the Manifesto countries and ethnic minorities of the Manifesto countries living abroad), non-economic demographic groups (women, old people, young people, linguistic groups); for Cyprus only: Cyprus issue.
Computed indices: percentages of content codes separately on each political level; left-right position of party; planned economy dimension, market economy dimension, welfare dimension; pro-anti European integration dimension; summarized percentages of uncoded quasi-sentences.
Additionally coded: Coder ID; region; country code (EMCS) plus election year; party code (EMCS) plus election year, total number of quasi-sentences.
description: Inhaltsanalyse
description: Content Coding
description: 1200 Wahlprogramme/Manifeste von relevanten Parteien in der EU vor der Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament. 
Als relevante Parteien in der EG/EU waren Parteien definiert, die im Europäischen Parlament wenigstens einmal vertreten waren.
description: 1200 election programs/manifestos of relevant parties in the EU published ahead of the election to the European Parliament in each EC/EU country between 1979 and 2019.
Relevant parties in the EC/EU are parties that have been represented in the European Parliament at least once.
description: Vollerhebung; Auswahlverfahren Kommentar: Totalerhebung von Parteimanifesten in der EU. Ausgangspunkt für die Verkodung eines Euromanifestos ist die erstmalige Wahl einer Partei in das Europäische Parlament.