Release Notes for the Manifesto Project Dataset / MARPOR Full Dataset: Updates (2011-2020b), changes, corrections, and known errors 1 MARPOR Full Dataset 2020b: December 2020 Version Elections added: • Austria 2019 • Denmark 2019 • Hungary 2018 • Israel 2019 April • Montenegro 2020 • Portugal 2019 • Spain 2019 November • Ukraine 2014 Corrections and changes: • Harmonized the election data of two italian electoral alliances and their members for 2006 election: • Following parties are affected: { House of Freedom (32629) { Green Federation (32110) { Communist Refoundation Party (32212) { Party of Italian Communists (32213) { Rose in the Fist (32221) { Olive Tree (32329) { List Di Pietro - Italy of Values (32902) { Autonomy Liberty Democracy (32903) { South Tyrolean Peoples Party (32904) { Popular Democratic Union for Europe (32953) { The Union Prodi (32955) 2 { Union for Christian and Center Democrats (32530) { Go Italy (32610) { New Italian Socialist Party (32611) { National Alliance (32710) { Northern League (32720) { Italy in the World (32952) • We changed a party family coding: { The Union - Prodi (32955) to 98 (diverse/alliance) • We corrected the coding of a few quasi-sentences in three documents which results in minor changes to their per-variables. The following manifesto are affected: (party date) { Lithuania: 88320 200810 { Slovakia: 96521 200606, 96710 200606 • We corrected a counting mistake of the codes of one document, resulting in changes of the per-values. { Slovakia: 96423 201603 • Dropped data for one observations: { Polish United Left (92022) in 2015 (we accidentially coded the 2011 manifesto again) Digitalization and Alignment • We digitized 25 older manifestos (including the codes) which might result in minor changes to their per-variables. The following manifesto are affected: (party date) { Armenia: 76420 200705 { Belgium: 21111 200706, 21221 200706, 21322 200706, 21426 200706, 21522 200706, 21111 201006, 21322 201006, 21426 201006, 21522 201006 { Canada: 62901 200601 { Mexico: 171301 200907, 171601 201207 { New Zealand: 64901 200509 { North Macedonia: 89224 200611 { Poland: 92710 199110, 92210 199309, 92322 199309, 92410 199309, 92710 199309, 92811 199309, 92953 199309, 92713 200109 { Slovenia: 97322 200410, 97322 200809 3 MARPOR Full Dataset 2020a: July 2020 Version Elections added: • Belgium 2019 (Flemish manifestos) • Bosnia and Herzegovina 2018 • Finland 2019 • Mexico 2018 • Poland 2015 • Slovenia 2018 • Spain 2019 April • Switzerland 2019 • Ukraine 2012 • United Kingdom 2019 Corrections and changes: • We added data for one previously not coded manifesto: { Danish Social-Liberal Party (13410) in 2015 • We replaced data for four observations: { Tradition, Responsibility, Prosperity 09 (82530) in 2010: the manifesto was lacking the last two pages, it was replaced by the complete document { Swedish Peoples Party (14901) in 2015: we remerged some wrongly splitted and "000" coded quasi-sentences { Direction-Social Democracy (96423) in 2016: we had coded the wrong manifesto before, it was replaced by the correct one { National (31720) in 2017: against our rules of not coding signed prefaces, the preface signed by Marinne Le Pen had been coded, the codes were deleted from this part • We changed a few party family codings: { Swiss Peoples Party (43810) to 70 (national) 4 { Liberal Party of Switzerland (43531) to 40 (liberal) { List Di Pietro - Italy of Values (32902) to 95 (special issue) • We corrected the "manual" variable values from 4 to 3 for manifestos of the following elections: { Estonia 1999 { Estonia 2007 { Estonia 2011 { Iceland 2003 { Iceland 2007 { Iceland 2009 { Lithuania 2008 • We changed various progtype codings: { Moderate Coalition Party (11620) in 2010 to 2 (joint programme) { Coalition for Bulgaria (80221) in 2009 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Civil Revolution (32021) in 2013 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Liberal Party of Australia (63620) in 2010 to 1 (single party programme) { Liberal National Party of Queensland (63621) in 2010 - 2016 to 4 (main party of electoral coalition programme) { Country Liberal Party (63622) in 2013 to 4 (main party of electoral coalition programme) { Social Democratic Party (83410) 1992-2015 to 1 (single party programme) { Pro Patria Union (83710) 1992-2003 to 1 (single party programme) { Democratic Left Alliance (92210) 2011 to 1 (single party programme) { Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko' (94422) 1995-2003 to 1 (single party programme) { Democratic Party of Serbia/New Serbia (95065) 2007 to 9 (other programme type) { Democratic Party of Serbia/New Serbia (95065) 2008 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Blue Coalition (80051) 2009 to 8 (party bloc programme) { People's coalition (81032) 2011 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Working for Lithuania (88031) 2004 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Coalition of Rolandas Paksas For Order and Justice' (88041) 2004 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova' (90320) 2005 to 8 (party bloc programme) 5 { Our Moldova Alliance (90321) 2009 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Left and Democrats (92021) 2007 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Ivica Dai SPS, US Dragan Markovic Palma (95021) 2012 to 9 (other programme type) { For a European Serbia Alliance (95040) 2008 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Choice For a Better Life Boris Tadi (95041) 2012 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Turnover edomir Jovanovi (95042) 2012 to 8 (party bloc programme) { United Regions of Serbia Mlaan Dinki (95451) 2012 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Democratic Party of Serbia/New Serbia (95065) 2012 to 8 (party bloc programme) { Hungarian Coalition (95901) 2008 to 8 (party bloc programme) • We changed the election date for the 1954 Irish manifestos from April 1954 to May 1954 • We changed the pervote value for the Independent Democratic Serbian Party (81910) in all years to NA since special minority election rules apply Digitalization and Alignment • We digitized 38 older manifestos (including the codes) which resulted in minor changes to their per-variables for 19 cases. The following manifesto are affected: (party date) { Armenia: 76610 200705, 76620 200705 { Canada: 62320 200406, 62420 200406, 62623 200406, 62901 200406, 62320 200601, 62420 200601, 62623 200601, 62110 200810, 62420 200810, 62623 200810, 62901 200810 { North Macedonia: 89940 200607 { Mexico: 171101 200907, 171306 200907, 171309 200907, 171310 200907, 171601 200907 6 MARPOR Full Dataset 2019b: December 2019 Version Elections added: • Denmark 2015 • Finland 2015 • Iceland 2017 • Latvia 2018 • Norway 2017 Corrections and changes: • Replaced data for one observation: { Direction-Social Democracy (96423) in 2016: we had coded the wrong manifesto before, it was replaced by the correct one • We changed various party family codings: { Norwegian Fremskrittspartiet (12951) to 70 (national) { Danish Fremskridtspartiet (13951) to 70 (national) { Finnisch True Finns (14820) to 70 (national) { Latvian Social Democratic Party "Harmony" (87340) to 20 (socialist and other left) • We changed the progtype of a few documents: { Armenian Revolutionary Federation (76321) in 2003 to 6 (general programme) { Prosperous Armenia (76620) in 2007 to 6 (general programme) • We unified the party code 81223 with 81220 for the elections in 2000, 2003, and 2007. In 1995, we dropped party 81223 and kept only party 81220. • The codings for Fidesz (Hungary, 86421) were harmonized. We dropped all codings referring to regional alliances under participation of Fidesz (86429, 86529, 86061) and summed up the vote shares (pervote) and number of seats (absseat). The code 86421 now refers always to Fidesz-led alliances. • We added the results of the presidential elections in Mexico since 1946. • We corrected the vote shares (pervote) for all political parties in the 2011 Slovenia election. 7 • We corrected the vote shares (pervote) and seats (absseat) for party 32521 in the 1996 Italian election. MARPOR Full Dataset 2019a: July 2019 Version Elections added: • Sweden 2018 • Iceland 2016 • Belgium 2014 (Flanders only) • Italy 2018 • New Zealand 2017 • Turkey 2018 • Lithuania 2016 • North Macedonia 2016 • Slovenia 2014 Corrections and changes: • We renamed Macedonia to North Macedonia. • We corrected the party code of Syriza for the June 2012 election, where the party was already running as a party and not as an alliance anymore. Thus the party code was changed from 34020 (Syriza's alliance code) to 34212 (Syriza's party code). • We corrected the variable edate in the following cases: { Israel 1959 { Mexico 1946 { Mexico 1955 { Mexico 1961 { Mexico 1967 { Mexico 1976 { Ukraine 2002 8 { South Africa 1994 • We corrected the variable date in the following cases: { Israel 1959 { Portugal 1979 • We changed the progtype of a few documents: { Pact for Italy (32528) 1994 is a program of an electoral alliances and was corrected to 8 (Party bloc programme). { The Union Prodi (32955) 2006 is a program of an electoral alliances and was corrected to 8 (Party bloc programme). • We corrected the variables pervote, absseat, and voteest following newly established coding criteria for electoral alliances and the corresponding member parties (please see the Codebook for the corresponding coding rules). The following cases were affected (party date): { Albania: 75320 199103, 75320 199605, 75421 199203, 75421 199605, 75621 199103, 75622 199203, 75623 199103, 75722 199103, 75810 199103, 75810 199605 { Belgium: 21221 200706, 21321 200706, 21330 200706 { Bosnia-Herzegovina: 79223 199609 { Bulgaria: 80110 199412, 80110 199704, 80220 199110, 80220 199412,