Der vorliegende Ansatz zur quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse programmatischer Dokumente von bundesdeutschen Parteien und Regierungen wurde im Rahmen der Manifesto Research Group (MRG) entwickelt. Er erweitert und verfeinert den für den internationalen Vergleich entwickelten MRG-Ansatz für den...

This paper addresses the old topic of contextual effects on voting behaviour. Current multilevel analysis techniques provide a powerful tool to (re-)examine such regional influ-ences on individual voting decisions. We apply multilevel analysis to German electoral data. Our results prove evidence...

Since 1979, the Manifesto Research Group (MRG) has been collecting and coding election programs with the aim of estimating policy preferences of political parties. Detailed descriptions of this project can be found in Budge et al. (1987, 2001), Laver and Budge (1992), and Klingemann et al....

Nach einer verbreiteten Auffassung hat die Transformation der EU zu einem Regime mit supranationalem Charakter, die durch den Vertrag von Maastricht eingeleitet wurde, mehrere legitimationswirksame Konsequenzen. Erstens führt sie zu einer Politisierung der EU, und in Folge davon wird die EU...

Today democracy is seen as the only legitimate form of government almost all over the world. That it can be institutionalized differently leads to the question which kind of democracy might be better or worse. This question can be answered normatively, but also on the basis of different...

Recently scholars identified a global explosion of democracy as a sharply distinctive period within Huntington's Third Wave of democratization. So far the role of modernization has not been analyzed with particular regard to this outstanding phase of democratization. Given that modernization has...

This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regime performance constitute a coherent syndrome of social change'a syndrome whose common focus has not properly been specified by standard modernization theory. We specify this syndrome as Human...

Da die Stabilität einer Regierung eine der Voraussetzungen ihrer Effektivität ist und gerade mittelosteuropäische Regierungen mit einem beachtlichen Problemdruck konfrontiert waren und sind, kommt der Regierungsstabilität in dieser Region eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Dieses Papier analysiert...

This paper uses third sector attitudes in Sweden as a test case for general assumptions about how citizens in ideologically structured West European political systems apply ideological schemas as shortcuts to political preferences. Third sector attitudes are found to be affected by all...

The constitution of a European demos with a collective identity is one of the preconditions for adjusting the legitimacy problem of the European Union (EU). The analysis attempts to clarify empirically whether there is sufficient commonality regarding Europeans' political value orientations to...