Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2012

Abstract

Coding non-manifesto documents as if they were genuine policy platforms produced at election time clearly raises serious issues with error when these codings are used in the standard manner to estimate left-right policy positions. In addition to the long term solution of improving the document base of the Manifesto Project identified by Gemenis (2012), we argue that immediate gains in manifesto-based estimates of policy positions can be realised by using the confrontational logit scales from Lowe et al. (2011), which addresses the problems of scale content and scale construction that are exacerbated by but not unique to the problems found in proxy documents.

Keywords

CMP, manifestos, policy positions

Discipline

Models and Methods | Political Science

Research Areas

Political Science

Publication

Electoral Studies

Volume

31

Issue

3

First Page

605

Last Page

608

ISSN

0261-3794

Identifier

10.1016/j.electstud.2012.05.004

Publisher

Elsevier

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2012.05.004

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