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
Citation
BENOIT, Kenneth, LAVER, Michael, LOWE, Will, & MIKHAYLOV, Slava.(2012). How to scale coded text units without bias: A response to Gemenis. Electoral Studies, 31(3), 605-608.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3984
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2012.05.004