Manifesto Research: Past, Present, and Future

摘要: There are numerous reasons to dedicate an essay Hans-Dieter Klingemann’s contributions party manifesto research. In 1979, Klingemann was a founding member of the Manifesto Research Group (MRG) European Consortium for Political (ECPR). This international group political scientists set out measure policy positions over time and between countries by means content analysis election programs. earlier work, devoted his talents measurement range texts. His interest in dates back at Zentralarchiv fur empirische Sozialforschung der Universitat zu Koln, ZA (1965–1974) Zentrum Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim, ZUMA (1974–1980). those settings, he contributed development Textpack (Klingemann 1984), program that is still widely used computerized analysis. During 1960s 1970s, applied method diverse topics such as coding professions (Schonbach 1978), societal change 1979a), open-ended questions questionnaires 1979b, Schonbach 1980), cultural indicators (Klingemann, Mohler Weber 1982) citizens’ assessments parties 1983).