An original dataset of political party positions on European Union enlargement, as stated in their manifestos for the 2024 European Parliament elections. The data covers parties elected to the 2024-2029 parliamentary term and was created by researcher Maartje van Diest. The dataset was last updated in May 2026.
Use Cases
- Classify party stances on EU enlargement based on manifesto text analysis.
- Analyze the salience of EU enlargement as a campaign issue across different political parties.
- Map the ideological spectrum of the 2024-2029 European Parliament regarding foreign policy and integration.
Strengths
- Original data collection focused on a specific policy issue (EU enlargement).
- Data is temporally anchored to the 2024 European Parliament election cycle.
- Source material is clearly defined as official party election manifestos.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- DataverseNL Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled through manual or computational content analysis of party election manifestos.
- Time Range
- 2024 (election year)
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-25 06:10:19; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- European Union member states