European Parliament Election Study 2009, Euromanifesto Study

Coded version of election programs.

Manifestos issued ahead of the European elections 2009.

The data contain coded versions of the party programs.

Topics: country in which the party ran in EP elections; party ID;
party family (parliamentary group) a party belongs to; 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, 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 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.