Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts: Statistical Solutions for Manifesto AnalystsAndrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Ian Budge, Michael D. McDonald, Hans-Dieter Klingemann OUP Oxford, 2013 - 326 sivua 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. |
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Validated Authoritative Indispensable The Manifesto Estimates in Political Research | 7 |
Validity Guarantees Reliability High Reliability Limits Error | 67 |
Delivering Quality Data CollectionCodingControlsCommunication | 129 |
Exploiting the Multilevel Estimates to Study Representation Comparatively | 237 |
General Bibliography | 299 |
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absolute citizen actual adjusted alternative analyses applied approach assumption basis Benoit Budge calculated Chapter checks citizen congruence coders coding collection comparability comparison context correlation countries dataset democratic dimension discussion distance distribution document effects election electoral error example expert extent Figure given gives groups important included indicators individual inferences issues Italy Laver left-right scale limited major Manifesto data Manifesto estimates mean measures Mikhaylov models movement MPDb original overall particular party family party policy party positions party supporter placements policy positions political possible preferences procedures produce programmatic programmes Project question range recording relative reliability reported representation represented requirements RILE scores short similar social specific standard statistical studies supporters surveys Table types uncertainty unit validity values variables variation voters yes yes yes