Do they work? Validating computerised word frequency estimates against policy series

Electoral Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-129

  Budge, Ian ^a   Pennings, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Computerised content analysis; Hand coding; Party manifestos; Policy estimates; Political texts; Reliability; Time series; Word frequencies

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; PARTY POLITICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846822032     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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