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

• Main Authors: BENOIT, Kenneth, LAVER, Michael
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Left-right; Political parties; Expert survey; Comparative manifestos project; Content analysis; Models and Methods; Political Science
• Online Access: 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...