Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts (eBook, PDF)

Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts
Redaktion: Volkens, Andrea; Klingemann, Hans-Dieter; McDonald, Michael D.; Budge, Ian; Bara, Judith

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic and political research. It is thus vital that their quality is established. The purpose of this book is to review methodological issues that have got in the way of straightforwardly using the Manifesto data since our two preceding volumes were published and to resolve them in ways which best serve users and textual analysts in general. The book is thus generally about text-based quantitative analysis with a particular focus on the quality of the CMP-MARPOR data and ways of assessing and using them, In doing so the book goes beyond normal data documentation - essential though that is - to confront the analytic issues faced by users of the data now distributed by MARPOR. It also provides concrete strategies for tackling these at the research level, with examples from the field of political representation. The problems of uncertainty, error, reliability and validity considered here are generic issues for political analysts in any area of research, so the book has an interest extending beyond the Manifesto estimates themselves - in particular to other textual analyses. In addition the book widens the range of applications introduced in our two previous volumes and discusses the extension of the manifesto project database to cover Latin America.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191665479
• Artikelnr.: 39940357

Autorenporträt

The Manifesto Research Group (MRG) and its successors - the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) and Manifesto Research on Political Representation (MARPOR) - is an international project which has been collecting and analysing manifestos and platforms from over fifty post-war democracies for over forty years. It is now housed at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, with a long-term grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Having concentrated previously on OECD, EU and CEE countries, it is now extending its collection to Latin America and beyond. For further information please go to https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* Preface
* Introduction: Characterising the Data Correctly in Order to Measure
them Accurately
* PART I: VALIDATED, AUTHORITATIVE, INDISPENSIBLE: THE MANIFESTO
ESTIMATES IN POLITICAL RESEARCH
* 1: Ian Budge and Thomas Meyer: The Best Tools to Tackle the Job
* 2: Robin E. Best: Using The Manifesto Estimates to Correct Systematic
'Centring' Error in Expert and Electoral Positioning of Parties
* 3: Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Ian Budge: Using The Manifesto
Estimates to Refine Party Family Placements
* PART II: VALIDITY GUARANTEES RELIABILITY: HIGH RELIABILITY LIMITS
ERROR
* 4: Ian Budge, Michael D. McDonald and Thomas Meyer: Validated
Estimates versus Dodgy Adjustments: focusing excessively on Error
Distorts Results
* 5: Ian Budge and Thomas Meyer: Understanding and Validating the
Right-Left Scale (RILE)
* 6: Michael D. McDonald: Measuring Uncertainty and Error Directly From
the End-Estimates
* PART III: DELIVERING QUALITY DATA: COLLECTION, CODING, CONTROLS,
COMMUNICATION
* 7: Ian Budge: Linking Uncertainty Measures to Document Selection and
Coding
* 8: Nicolas Merz and Sven Regel: What are Manifestos for? Selecting
and Typing Documents for the Database
* 9: Onawa P. Lacewell and Annika Werner: Coder Training: Key to
Enhancing Coding Reliability and Estimate Validity
* 10: Sven Regel: Data Entry and Access: Introducing the Manifesto
Project Database (MPDb)
* 11: Simon Franzmann: From Data to Inference and Back Again:
Perspectives from Content Analysis
* PART IV: EXPLOITING THE MULTI-LEVEL ESTIMATES TO STUDY REPRESENTATION
COMPARATIVELY
* 12: Ian Budge and Hans-Dieter Klingemann: Parties and Citizens:
Representation over 28 Countries
* 13: Pola Lehmann and Henrike Schultze: Linking Data-Sets from Party
to Individual Levels in order to Evaluate Congruence Measures
Comparatively
* 14: Andrea Volkens and Judith Bara: Presidential versus Parliamentary
Representation: Extending Manifesto Estimates to Latin America