Mapping policy preferences
Subtitle: estimates for parties, electors, and governments, 1945-1998
By: Ian Budge ... [et al.].
Contributors: Budge, Ian.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780199244003
Subjects: Political planning.; Policy sciences.; Democracy.; Political parties.; World politics -- 1945-1989.; Politieke partijen.; Politieke meningen.; Democratie.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: content analysis and political texts / Ian Budge and Judith Bara; title: Finally! Comparative over-time mapping of party policy movement / Ian Budge and Hans Dieter-Klingemann; title: Manifesto-based research: a critical review / Ian Budge and Judith Bara; title: Theory and measurement of party policy positions / Ian Budge; title: Quantifying the election programmes: coding procedures and controls / Andrea Volkens; title: Checking the party policy estimates: reliability / Derek J. Hearl; title: Checking the party policy estimates: convergent validity / Michael D. McDonald and Silvia M. Mendes; title: Using manifesto estimates to validate computerized analyses / Judith Bara; title: Extending party estimates to governments and electors / Hee-Min Kim and Richard C. Fording; title: Approaching the data / Eric Tanenbaum.