This repository contains publicly available party manifestos released prior to Irish General, Local and European Parliament Elections.
The folder data contains the entire text corpus in various file formats (csv, parquet, and rds).
The folder manifestos_txt contains all manifestos as separate txt files. These files have been converted from the original PDF format and cleaned manually.
You can download all files by clicking on "Code" -> "Download ZIP".
You can access the text corpus through an interactive dashboard at: https://irishpoliticsdata.shinyapps.io/manifestoexplorer/
You are free to use data and results from the Manifesto Explorer in your research or in news articles as long as you mention the project and (if possible) add a link to this GitHub page or the interactive dashboard.
Maintainer: Stefan Müller
Contributors: Robin Rauner, Artur Baranov, Paula Montano
The project received financial support from Next Generation Energy Systems (NexSys), an all-island, multidisciplinary energy research programme, and the Strategic Funding Scheme of the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law.