manifestata is a free add-on for the commerical statistical software Stata. It provides access to coded election programmes from the Manifesto Corpus and to the Manifesto Project's Main Dataset.
- provides access to the Manifesto Corpus
- downloads and loads the Manifesto Project Main Dataset in Stata
- and support for all other functions of the Manifesto API.
- Stata - Version 14.0 or higher required.
- Manifesto Project Database Account (sign up on this webpage)
- Manifesto Project Database API Key (login to your account, go to your profile page and generate an API key)
- Type the following commands in your command line in Stata:
net from https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/manifestatanet install manifestata
- After installation, type
help manifestatain Stata command window to view the documentation
You would like to contribute to the development of manifestata, eg. by integrating your preferred scaling procedure for the Main Dataset, fork manifestata on Github and/or get in touch with us.
Ecker, Alejandro / Merz, Nicolas / Lewandowski, Jirka / Regel, Sven (2016): manifestata. A stata package to access the Manifesto Project's API. https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/manifestata