manifestos move east

[...] for those willing to accept the basic premises of the manifesto project, that is, that party programmes reflect a mixture of ideological and strategic considerations, and that it is impossible to distinguish between the two (a concern raised in Pelizzo's (2003) recent critique), this new data set contains a wealth of empirical material that enables longitudinal and cross-national comparative analysis into a multitude of aspects relevant to contemporary party democracy and party government.