How to scale coded text units without bias: A response to Gemenis

Electoral Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 605-608

  Benoit, Kenneth ^a   Laver, Michael ^b   Lowe, Will ^c   Mikhaylov, Slava ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CMP; Manifestos; Policy positions

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; ELECTION; PARTY POLITICS;

EID: 84864316993     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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