The Manifesto Corpus is the digital text collection of over 2,000 electoral programmes from 40 countries in more than 30 languages. The Manifesto Project, which has been located at the WZB for decades and funded by the DFG since 2009, processes this data and makes it available to the scientific community. The conference brings together a number of scholars using the text corpus in various disciplines (e.g. political science, economics, computer science).
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R is a powerful, free and open source programming language for data manipulation, analysis and visualization (as well as a number of other fancy things). Arndt’s approach to teaching R lets you work with real data sets on your own laptops right from the start. The introduction’s emphasis will be on data manipulation and visualization but equips you with the knowledge to then go further on your own.
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Für viele Menschen verkörpert die Energiewende das Versprechen einer nachhaltigeren Zukunft. Jedoch längst nicht für alle. Die Konflikte um die Energiewende mehren sich, insbesondere um den Zubau erneuerbarer Energienanlagen in den windreichen Regionen des Nordens. Hier formiert sich öffentlicher Widerstand, der auch zunehmend professionell organisiert ist. Diese Proteste gefährden die Erreichung der Energiewendeziele ernsthaft, obwohl diese Ziele weiterhin von großen Teilen der Bevölkerung ideell getragen werden.
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In recent years, the number of young students in Germany who earn a university entrance qualification has continually risen. However, the likelihood of entering higher education is still strongly linked to social origin. For this reason, an increasing number of counseling programs have been implemented in recent years that aim to break the link between young people's educational decisions and their social origin.