Swedish political party programs and election manifestos

SND-ID: SND 0810

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

University of Gothenburg, Swedish National Data Service

Description

Swedish party programs and election manifestos from 1897 until today.

All documents are also open available at page: https://snd.gu.se/vivill, where it is possible to search in the documents.

Swedish party programs and election manifestos builds on the "Vi vill …! Hundra år av partipolitiska viljeyttringar" ("We want…! A hundred years of political party declarations") project, which the predecessor of SND, SSD, conducted in 2000–2002. The purpose of this project was to collect the programs and manifestos that the political parties had produced during the 20th century. In these texts, you can trace the development of the political parties in terms of their language, politics, and ideology. The material also provides an overview of which questions have been essential for the development of Sweden.

The selection of election manifestos builds on work done by Sven-Olov Håkansson in "Svenska valprogram 1902–1952" (”Swedish election programs 1902–1952”), and materials collected and used in the research project "Partiernas opinionspåverkan" (“Political party influence on public opinions”), POP, by

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Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

Swedish National Data Service

Funding

  • Funding agency: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation rorId
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Time period(s) investigated

1897 – ongoing

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Publications
Dataset
Swedish political party programs and election manifestos

Description

The dataset consists of:
- The zip file "Svenska partiprogram och valmanifest" that consists of the folder "Partidokument" which contains all political party documents in .pdf and .txt format sorted in separate folders for each party
- The documentation files "Partidokument" where the .xlsx and .csv documents listing all party documents, their type, source and titles as well as a "readme" .txt file.

Access to data: https://snd.gu.se/en/vivill

Version 2

2022-08-30
https://doi.org/10.5878/8az5-zd46

Data added : Additional party programs and election manifestos added

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Citation

University of Gothenburg, Swedish National Data Service (2022). Swedish political party programs and election manifestos. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2. https://doi.org/10.5878/8az5-zd46

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Data format / data structure

Text

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

University of Gothenburg, Swedish National Data Service

Published: 2006-01-01
Last updated: 2022-09-01