Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions

By Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver, Slava Jankin. 2009

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Subfields: General Social Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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The Design of Preferential Trade Agreements (2011, methodology): “23 Finally, such an approach will allow us to incorporate coder‟s error in the final measurement of PTA scope, as suggested by previous studies in comparative politics (Benoit et al. 2009; Lowe et al. 2011).”
Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts (2013, methodology): “Similarly, Benoit, Laver, and Mikhaylov (2009) use SIMEX to include error in text-based scales into generalized linear models.”
Responding to Voters or Responding to Markets? Political Parties and Public Opinion in an Era of Globalization (2014, unknown): “…is to estimate the parameters of the model specification for Table 1 Column 2 for only significant party shifts, that is, shifts that are greater than the bootstrapped standard errors published by Benoit et al. (2009).26 Table 2 Model 8 reports estimates for only significant party shifts.”
Who gets what in coalition governments? Predictors of portfolio allocation in parliamentary democracies (2011, methodology): “’ In a recent paper, Benoit et al. (2009) use the error correction model ‘simulation-extrapolation’ (SIMEX; see Stefanski & Cook 1995) to correct for random measurement error for each of the 56 CMP policy categories.”
Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970-2000 (2010, methodology): “While the dataset established by the CMP bears methodological problems because of its approach of coding saliencies rather than positions (Benoit et al. 2009; Laver 2001; Mikhaylov et al. 2008) and a number of alternative methods for estimating the positions of political actors exist (e.g., Laver &…”