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Open Political Statements Germany 2021 General Election (2021 Bundestagswahl)

Open Political Statements Germany 2021 General Election (2021 Bundestagswahl)

Maximilian
Open Dataset
Creators: Maximilian Witte
Publication Date: 2025-11-21
Creators: Maximilian Witte

This dataset consists of two complementary components capturing both the official positions of the major political parties in the 2021 German general election and the public perception of these positions.

The first component contains pre-processed short versions of the election programs from the six major parties that competed at the federal level in 2021: CDU/CSU, SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, FDP, Die Linke, and AfD. All statements are processed for text classification and were sourced from party publications released for the 2021 campaign.

The second component includes 7,500 individual statements from consumers describing what they believe these political parties stand for and do not stand for. Participants were asked to freely express their perceptions without constraints on length or structure. Each statement is linked to the referenced party where applicable and contains metadata on anonymized participant ID, timestamp, and language. Statements include both supportive and critical assessments and therefore represent a wide range of public interpretations of party identity and political priorities.

Together, the two components enable the study of the relationship between the official communication of political parties and the way citizens mentally represent party beliefs. The dataset can be used for research in political communication, perception gaps, misinformation, narrative framing, and natural language processing applications such as stance detection and text similarity.

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