Items where Author is "Benoit, Kenneth"

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 (2022) Highlights from LSE’s CIVICA research hackathon. LSE COVID-19 Blog (02 Feb 2022). Blog Entry.

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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. (Submitted)

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 and McElroy, Gail (2007) A policy model of party group formation in the European Parliament. Occasional paper series (2007.7). Tōkyō Daigaku, Tokyo.

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 and Laver, Michael (2006) Automated content analysis of political texts using wordscores. Apsa-Cp Newsletter (2006). Website.

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

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 and Laver, Michael (2006) Party policy in modern democracies. Routledge research in comparative politics. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415368322

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.

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, 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 Baturo, Alex (2005) National party competition and support for European integration. In: ECPR General Conference, 2005-09-08 - 2005-09-10, Budapest, Hungary. (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. (Submitted)

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

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 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 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. (Submitted)

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 (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) 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) 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 (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

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

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)

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