Proxy documents as a source of measurement error in the Comparative Manifestos Project

Electoral Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 594-604

  Gemenis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparative Manifestos Project; Document selection; Measurement quality; Parties; Policy positions

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTY POLITICS; POLICY MAKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864301158     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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