Coder reliability and misclassification in the human coding of party manifestos

• Main Authors: MIKHAYLOV, Slava, LAVER, Michael, BENOIT, Kenneth
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Policy positions; nominal scales; agreement; words; texts; Models and Methods; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3983; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5241/viewcontent/coder_reliability_and_misclassification_pvoa_cc_by.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) provides the only time series of estimated party policy positions in political science and has been extensively used in a wide variety of applications. Recent work (e.g., Benoit, Laver, and Mikhaylov 2009; Klingemann et al. 2006) focuses on nonsystematic sourc...