The First Steps with manifestoR tutorial by the Manifesto Project (MARPOR / CMP) introduces the R package for accessing and analyzing party manifesto data. It covers installation, data retrieval, text and metadata handling, and basic text analysis techniques such as cleaning, subsetting, and exporting data for further research.
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This tutorial by the Parliaments and Governments database (ParlGov) and the Manifesto Project demonstrates how to merge the Manifesto Project Dataset with cabinet composition data from ParlGov for integrated political analysis.
OPTED Meteor offers an inventory of news sources that can also be used as a teaching tool in university courses. It includes training materials for coders, supporting practical learning in data collection and analysis.
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) offers a range of training modules, including Navigating Restricted Data, Exploring Data with GIS, Voting Behavior Projects, Community and Social Capital, and Exploring Data through Research Literature, providing practical guidance for working with social science datasets.
The Demscore download instructions page by DEMSCORE provides a brief guide on using the platform’s data download interface, helping users access and retrieve datasets efficiently. Check out more on their page.
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The Representative Democracy Data Archive (REPDEM) by DEMSCORE provides data on governments, parliaments, and parties in European democracies. Students can study coalition formation, minority governments, and patterns in government formation, building on projects like ERDDA and the PAGED database.
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