Items where Author is "Benoit, Kenneth"

Article

Däubler, Thomas and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2022) Scaling hand-coded political texts to learn more about left-right policy content. Party Politics, 28 (5). 834 - 844. ISSN 1354-0688

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Munger, Kevin and Spirling, Arthur (2019) Measuring and explaining political sophistication through textual complexity. American Journal of Political Science, 63 (2). 491 - 508. ISSN 0092-5853

Welbers, Kasper, Van Atteveldt, Wouter and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2017) Text analysis in R. Communication Methods and Measures, 11 (4). pp. 245-265. ISSN 1931-2458

Amador Diaz Lopez, Julio Cesar, Collignon-Delmar, Sofia, Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Matsuo, Akitaka (2017) Predicting the Brexit vote by tracking and classifying public opinion using Twitter data. Statistics, Politics and Policy, 8 (1). ISSN 2194-6299

Nulty, Paul, Theocharis, Yannis, Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Parnet, Olivier and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2016) Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Electoral Studies, 44. pp. 429-444. ISSN 0261-3794

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Conway, Drew, Lauderdale, Benjamin E., Laver, Michael and Mikhaylov, Slava (2016) Crowd-sourced text analysis: reproducible and agile production of political data. American Political Science Review, 110 (2). 278 - 295. ISSN 0003-0554

Schwarz, Daniel, Traber, Denise and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2015) Estimating intra-party preferences: comparing speeches tovotes. Political Science Research and Methods, 5 (2). pp. 379-396. ISSN 2049-8470

Herzog, Alexander and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2015) The most unkindest cuts: speaker selection and expressed government dissent during economic crisis. Journal of Politics, 77 (4). 1157 - 1175. ISSN 0022-3816

Laver, Michael and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2015) The basic arithmetic of legislative decisions. American Journal of Political Science, 59 (2). 275 - 291. ISSN 0092-5853

Lowe, Will and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2013) Validating estimates of latent traits from textual data using human judgment as a benchmark. Political Analysis, 21 (3). pp. 298-313. ISSN 1047-1987

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Laver, Michael, Lowe, Will and Mikhaylov, Slava (2012) How to scale coded text units without bias: a response to Gemenis. Electoral Studies, 31 (3). pp. 605-608. ISSN 0261-3794

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2012) The dimensionality of political space: epistemological and methodological considerations. European Union Politics, 13 (2). pp. 194-218. ISSN 1465-1165

Mikhaylov, Slava, Laver, Michael and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2012) Coder reliability and misclassification in the human coding of party manifestos. Political Analysis, 20 (1). pp. 78-91. ISSN 1047-1987

Däubler, Thomas, Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Mikhaylov, Slava and Laver, Michael (2012) Natural sentences as valid units for coded political texts. British Journal of Political Science, 42 (04). pp. 937-951. ISSN 0007-1234

McElroy, Gail and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2012) Policy positioning in the European Parliament. European Union Politics, 13 (1). pp. 150-167. ISSN 1465-1165

Lowe, Will, Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Mikhaylov, Slava and Laver, Michael (2011) Scaling policy preferences from coded political texts. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 36 (1). pp. 123-155. ISSN 0362-9805

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Marsh, Michael (2010) Incumbent and challenger campaign spending effects in proportional electoral systems: the Irish elections of 2002. Political Research Quarterly, 63 (1). pp. 159-173. ISSN 1065-9129

McElroy, Gail and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2010) Party policy and group affiliation in the European Parliament. British Journal of Political Science, 40 (02). p. 377. ISSN 0007-1234

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Laver, Michael and Mikhaylov, Slava (2009) Treating words as data with error: uncertainty in text statements of policy positions. American Journal of Political Science, 53 (2). pp. 495-513. ISSN 0092-5853

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

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2009) Irish political parties and policy stances on European integration. Irish Political Studies, 24 (4). pp. 447-466. ISSN 0790-7184

Wiesehomeier, Nina and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2009) Presidents, parties, and policy competition. Journal of Politics, 71 (04). p. 1435. ISSN 0022-3816

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Marsh, Michael (2009) A relative impact ranking of political studies in Ireland. Economic and Social Review, 40 (3). pp. 269-298. ISSN 0012-9984

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2008) Compared to what?: a comment on "A robust transformation procedure for interpreting political text" by Martin and Vanberg. Political Analysis, 16 (1). pp. 101-111. ISSN 1047-1987

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Marsh, Michael (2008) The campaign value of incumbency: a new solution to the puzzle of less effective incumbent spending. American Journal of Political Science, 52 (4). pp. 874-890. ISSN 0092-5853

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2007) Electoral laws as political consequences: explaining the origins and change of electoral institutions. Annual Review of Political Science, 10 (1). pp. 363-390. ISSN 1094-2939

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2007) Benchmarks for text analysis: a response to Budge and Pennings. Electoral Studies, 26 (1). pp. 130-135. ISSN 0261-3794

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2007) Estimating party policy positions: comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis. Electoral Studies, 26 (1). pp. 90-107. ISSN 0261-3794

Laver, Michael and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2007) Le changement des systèmes partisans et la transformation des espaces politiques. Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 14 (2). pp. 303-324. ISSN 1370-0731

McElroy, Gail and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2007) Party groups and policy positions in the European Parliament. Party Politics, 13 (1). pp. 5-28. ISSN 1354-0688

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Giannetti, Daniela and Laver, Michael (2006) Voter strategies with restricted choice menus. British Journal of Political Science, 36 (03). pp. 459-485. ISSN 0007-1234

Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Sauger, Nicolas (2006) Policy competition in the 2002 French legislative and presidential elections. European Journal of Political Research, 45 (4). pp. 667-697. ISSN 0304-4130

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2006) Duverger's law and the study of electoral systems. French Politics, 4 (1). pp. 69-83. ISSN 1476-3419

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Laver, Michael, Arnold, Christine, Pennings, Paul and Hosli, Madeleine O. (2005) Measuring national delegate positions at the convention on the future of Europe using computerized word scoring. European Union Politics, 6 (3). pp. 291-313. ISSN 1465-1165

Laver, Michael and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2005) Estimating party policy positions: Japan in comparative context. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 6 (2). pp. 187-209. ISSN 1468-1099

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2005) Mapping the Irish policy space: voter and party spaces in preferential elections. Economic and Social Review, 36 (2). pp. 83-108. ISSN 0012-9984

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Hayden, Jacqueline (2004) Institutional change and persistence: the evolution of Poland's electoral system, 1989–2001. Journal of Politics, 66 (02). pp. 396-427. ISSN 0022-3816

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2004) Models of electoral system change. Electoral Studies, 23 (3). pp. 363-389. ISSN 0261-3794

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Marsh, Michael (2003) Campaign spending in the local government elections of 1999. Irish Political Studies, 18 (2). pp. 1-22. ISSN 0790-7184

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2003) Estimating Irish party policy positions using computer wordscoring: the 2002 election – a research note. Irish Political Studies, 18 (1). pp. 97-107. ISSN 0790-7184

Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Garry, John (2003) Extracting policy positions from political texts using words as data. American Political Science Review, 97 (2). pp. 311-331. ISSN 0003-0554

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Marsh, Michael (2003) For a few euros more: campaign spending effects in the Irish local elections of 1999. Party Politics, 9 (5). pp. 561-582. ISSN 1460-3683

Laver, Michael and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2003) The evolution of party systems between elections. American Journal of Political Science, 47 (2). pp. 215-233. ISSN 0092-5853

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2002) The endogeneity problem in electoral studies: a critical re-examination of Duverger's mechanical effect. Electoral Studies, 21 (1). pp. 35-46. ISSN 0261-3794

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2002) Like déjà vu all over again: the Hungarian parliamentary elections of 2002. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 18 (4). pp. 119-133. ISSN 1352-3279

Laver, Michael and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2002) Locating TDs in policy spaces: the computational text analysis of Dáil speeches. Irish Political Studies, 17 (1). pp. 59-73. ISSN 0790-7184

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Schiemann, John W. (2001) Institutional choice in new democracies: bargaining over Hungary's 1989 electoral law. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 13 (2). pp. 153-182. ISSN 0951-6298

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2001) District magnitude, electoral formula, and the number of parties. European Journal of Political Research, 39 (2). pp. 203-224. ISSN 0304-4130

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2001) Book review: Doing research in political science: an introduction to comparative methods and statistics. Acta Politica, 36. pp. 107-109. ISSN 0001-6810

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2000) Which electoral formula is the most proportional?: a new look with new evidence. Political Analysis, 8 (4). pp. 381-388. ISSN 1047-1987

Book Section

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Wiesehomeier, Nina (2009) Expert judgments. In: Pickel, Susanne, Pickel, Gert, Lauth, Hans-Joachim and Jahn, Detlef, (eds.) Methoden Der Vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft. VS Verlag, pp. 497-516. ISBN 9783531161945

McElroy, Gail and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2009) Party group switching in the European Parliament. In: Heller, William B. and Mershon, Carol, (eds.) Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230607552

Giannetti, Daniela and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2008) Intra-party politics and coalition governments in parliamentary democracies. In: Giannetti, Daniela and Benoit, Kenneth, (eds.) Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments. Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415462259

Giannetti, Daniela and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2008) Intra-party politics and coalition governments: concluding remarks. In: Giannetti, Daniela and Benoit, Kenneth, (eds.) Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments. Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415462259

Gwiazda, Anna and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2006) Hungary: united in support, divided by borders. In: König, Thomas and Hug, Simon, (eds.) Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 119-127. ISBN 9780415385077

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2005) Hungary: holding back the tiers. In: The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199257560

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Laver, Michael and Giannetti, Daniela (2004) Multiparty split-ticket voting estimation as an ecological inference problem. In: King, Gary, Rosen, Ori and Tanner, Martin A., (eds.) Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies. Analytical methods for social research. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 333-350. ISBN 9780521542807

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2002) Hungary. In: Pendergast, Sara and Pendergast, Thomas, (eds.) Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies. Gale. ISBN 0787649554

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2001) Authoritarianism. In: Michie, Jonathan, (ed.) Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9781579580919

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2001) Evaluating Hungary's mixed‐member electoral system. In: Shugart, Matthew Soberg and Wattenberg, Martin P., (eds.) Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: the Best of Both Worlds? Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 477-493. ISBN 9780199257683

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2001) Military dictatorship. In: Michie, Jonathan, (ed.) Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9781579580919

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2001) One-party state. In: Michie, Jonathan, (ed.) Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9781579580919

Monograph

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and McElroy, Gail (2007) A policy model of party group formation in the European Parliament. Occasional paper series (2007.7). Tōkyō Daigaku, Tokyo.

McElroy, Gail and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2005) Party groups and policy positions in the European Parliamen. IIIS discussion paper (101). Institute for International Integration Studies, Dublin.

Chari, Raj S., Egea de Horo, Alfonso, Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2004) Spain and European Union constitution building. Working papers (45/2004). Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid.

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2001) Two step forward, one steps back: electoral coordination in the Hungarian elections of 1998. . Trinity College Dublin. (Submitted)

Conference or Workshop Item

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X, Laver, Michael and Mikhaylov, Slava (2007) Mapping policy preferences with uncertainty: measuring and correcting error in comparative manifesto project estimates. In: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2007-08-30 - 2007-09-02, Chicago, United States, USA. (Submitted)

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Baturo, Alex (2005) National party competition and support for European integration. In: ECPR General Conference, 2005-09-08 - 2005-09-10, Budapest, Hungary, HUN. (Submitted)

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2005) The integer arithmetic of legislative dynamics. In: Workshop on Party Switching, 2005-07-10 - 2005-07-14, VA, United States, USA. (Submitted)

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2002) Extracting policy positions from political texts using phrases as data: a research note. In: Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2002-04-03 - 2002-04-06, Chicago, United States, USA. (Submitted)

Book

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2006) Party policy in modern democracies. Routledge research in comparative politics. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415368322

Online resource

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2022) Highlights from LSE’s CIVICA research hackathon. LSE COVID-19 Blog (02 Feb 2022). Blog Entry.

Matsuo, Akitaka and Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2017) More positive, assertive and forward-looking: how Leave won Twitter. LSE Brexit (16 Mar 2017). Website.

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X and Laver, Michael (2006) Automated content analysis of political texts using wordscores. Apsa-Cp Newsletter (2006). Website.

Benoit, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0002-0797-564X (2001) Simulation methodologies for political scientists. The Political Methodologist (2001). Website.