Benoit, Kenneth 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Bräuninger, Thomas and Debus, Marc
(2009)
Challenges for estimating policy preferences: announcing an open access archive of political documents.
German Politics, 18 (3).
pp. 441-454.
ISSN 0964-4008
Abstract
We provide a comparative perspective on the contributions of the special issue with regard to their applied methods and findings. In addition, we discuss problems that arise when using ‘wrong’ or at least ‘incorrect’ versions of election manifestos by presenting replications of estimated policy positions of German parties. We show that the latter can result in biased estimates that may affect the outcome of theoretical models. On the basis of those findings, we present the idea of the open access archive polidoc.net to build up a common database for political texts.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fgrp20 |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Association for the Study of German Politics |
| Divisions: | Methodology |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2013 12:34 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 22:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/48144 |
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