Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis

In this paper we compare estimates of the left-right positions of political parties derived from an expert survey recently completed by the authors with those derived by the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) from the content analysis of party manifestos. Having briefly described the expert survey...

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Main Authors: BENOIT, Kenneth, LAVER, Michael
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-52442024-09-02T06:20:17Z Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis BENOIT, Kenneth LAVER, Michael In this paper we compare estimates of the left-right positions of political parties derived from an expert survey recently completed by the authors with those derived by the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) from the content analysis of party manifestos. Having briefly described the expert survey, we first explore the substantive policy content of left and right in the expert survey estimates. We then compare the expert survey to the CMP method on methodological grounds. Third, we directly compare the expert survey results to the CMP results for the most recent time period available, revealing some agreement but also numerous inconsistencies in both cross-national and within-country party placements. We conclude by investigating the CMP scores in more detail, focusing on the series of British left-right placements and the components of these scores. 2007-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3986 info:doi/10.1016/j.electstud.2006.04.008 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5244/viewcontent/BenoitLaverElStud_2007_pv.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Left-right Political parties Expert survey Comparative manifestos project Content analysis Models and Methods Political Science
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Singapore
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topic Left-right
Political parties
Expert survey
Comparative manifestos project
Content analysis
Models and Methods
Political Science
spellingShingle Left-right
Political parties
Expert survey
Comparative manifestos project
Content analysis
Models and Methods
Political Science
BENOIT, Kenneth
LAVER, Michael
Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis
description In this paper we compare estimates of the left-right positions of political parties derived from an expert survey recently completed by the authors with those derived by the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) from the content analysis of party manifestos. Having briefly described the expert survey, we first explore the substantive policy content of left and right in the expert survey estimates. We then compare the expert survey to the CMP method on methodological grounds. Third, we directly compare the expert survey results to the CMP results for the most recent time period available, revealing some agreement but also numerous inconsistencies in both cross-national and within-country party placements. We conclude by investigating the CMP scores in more detail, focusing on the series of British left-right placements and the components of these scores.
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author BENOIT, Kenneth
LAVER, Michael
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title Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis
title_short Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis
title_full Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis
title_fullStr Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis
title_full_unstemmed Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis
title_sort estimating party policy positions: comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2007
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3986
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5244/viewcontent/BenoitLaverElStud_2007_pv.pdf
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