PD Dr. Martin Gross
The Local Manifesto Project (LMP) collects and analyzes parties’ electoral manifestos to gain new insights into the structure and dynamics of local party competition. Our work is inspired by similar projects which have analyzed party manifestos at the national and regional level. Analyzing local party manifestos is particularly important as we lack systematic and comparable information about party competition at the local level. The analysis of local party manifestos can be a solution to this lack of data.
On this webpage you can access and directly analyze the current text corpus. We have collected more than 800 local party manifestos from local elections in Germany. Some of these manifestos date back to 1990, but most manifestos come from elections in the 2000s. Moreover all manifestos come from large cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The text corpus will be constantly updated as new manifestos are collected for each upcoming local election.
On this webpage we provide access to the raw data as well as a link to an R Shiny App which allows you to analyze the data in your webbrowser.
PD Dr. Martin Gross