DOI: 10.4232/1.12659
title: European Parliament Election Study 1979-2009, Euromanifesto Study
title: European Parliament Election Study 1979-2009, Euromanifesto Study

description: Vor den Europawahlen von 1979 bis 2009 herausgegebene Parteiprogramme.
Der Datensatz enthält eine verkodete Version der Parteiprogramme.
description: Coded version of election programs. Manifestos issued ahead of the
European elections between 1979 and 2009.

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; freedom; 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 European
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 regulation; 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; ZA study number of base study; version of base study.
description: Inhaltsanalyse
description: Content Coding
description: 683 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: 683 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 2009.
Relevant parties in the EC/EU are parties that have been represented
in the European Parliament at least once.
description: Totalerhebung von Parteimanifesten in der EU. Ausgangspunkt für die Verkodung eines Euromanifestos ist die erstmalige Wahl einer Partei in das Europäische Parlament.