Measuring and explaining political sophistication through textual complexity
Political scientists lack domain-specific measures for the purpose of measuring the sophistication of political communication. We systematically review the shortcomings of existing approaches, before developing a new and better method along with software tools to apply it. We use crowdsourcing to pe...
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Main Authors: | BENOIT, Kenneth, MUNGER, Kevin, SPIRLING, Arthur |
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Language: | English |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2019
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3974 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5232/viewcontent/Measuring_Political_Sophistication_pvoa_by_nc.pdf |
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