Introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). This book details the key achievements of the project, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance. It is of interest to students of politics and democracy.

The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic and political research. It is thus vital that their quality is established. The purpose of this book is to review methodological issues that have got in the way of straightforwardly using the Manifesto data since our two preceding volumes were published and to resolve them in ways which best serve users and textual analysts in general. The book is thus generally about text-based quantitative analysis with a particular focus on the quality of the CMP-MARPOR data and ways of assessing and using them,...