Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis

Electoral Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-107

  Benoit, Kenneth ^a   Laver, Michael ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative manifestos project; Content analysis; Expert survey; Left right; Political parties

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; PARTY POLITICS; SURVEY;

EID: 33846783964     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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6. In: Laver M., and Budge I. (Eds). Party Policy and Government Coalitions (1992), Macmillan, London