Scaling policy preferences from coded political texts

Scaling policy preferences from coded political texts

Scholars estimating policy positions from political texts typically code words or sentences and then build left-right policy scales based on the relative frequencies of text units coded into different categories. Here we reexamine such scales and propose a theoretically and linguistically superior a...

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Main Authors: LOWE, Will, BENOIT, Kenneth, MIKHAYLOV, Slava, LAVER, Michael
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
Subjects:
Models and Methods
Political Science
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3973
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5231/viewcontent/2011_ScalingPolicyPreferences_CodedPoliticalTexts_pvoa_by_nc.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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