Dataset of Jaccard similarity indices from 1,597 European political manifestos across 27 countries (1945–2017)

. 2019 Apr 9;24:103907. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103907

Value of the data

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The data can be used to compare how political parties present themselves through their electoral platforms. The data provide common and comparable similarity metrics across a panel of 27 European countries. This methodology is language neutral and captures the order of words in a text.
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With several parties having a log time presence across numerous elections, these data can be used to track the lexical evolutions of the political parties' manifestos.