Social Group Appeals in European Party Manifestos, 1970-2025

791 election manifestos from 139 parties across eight European democracies contain data on social group appeals. The dataset, created by Alona O. Dolinsky and the PSoGA organization, provides sentence-level and manifesto-level analyses. It covers a longitudinal period from 1970 to 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze the frequency and type of social group appeals per manifesto across the 139 parties.
• Train models to classify sentence-level text into categories of social group appeals.
• Conduct time-series analysis on the evolution of group-based appeals from 1970 to 2025.
• Compare manifesto-level aggregated appeal scores across the eight European democracies.

Strengths

• Covers 791 election manifestos, providing a substantial corpus for analysis.
• Longitudinal scope spans 55 years from 1970 to 2025.
• Cross-national coverage includes eight distinct European democracies.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, column details, and data formats are not provided in the input.
• The dataset's geographic scope is limited to eight Western/Northern European countries, excluding other regions.
• The description does not specify the annotation methodology or potential inter-coder reliability metrics.

Provenance

Source

Alona O. Dolinsky and the PSoGA organization.

Collection Method

Systematic analysis of party election manifesto texts.

Time Range

1970 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-02, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.