Extracting policy positions from political texts using words as data

American Political Science Review

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 311-331

  Laver, Michael ^a   Benoit, Kenneth ^a   Garry, John ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0038385893     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055403000698     Document Type: Review

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