European Parliament Election Study 2014, Euromanifesto Study

The EM Project 2014 is the fourth project phase of the overall EM Project 1979-2014, which derives from on the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP). Coding rules, examples, and general information on the project heavily rely on the first editions of the EM Project, the EMCS, and the corresponding documentations. The EMCS originates from the second edition of the Manifesto Coding Instructions, compiled by Andrea Volkens at the Berlin Social Science Centre (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) in Berlin. As it is the intention of the EM Project to strive for full comparability with both the CMP and the previous (1979-2009) EM content codes, most coding rules have been adapted from the original handbook.