Papers

To learn more about Wordscores as a research method the following papers may be useful.

• Michael Laver, Kenneth Benoit, and John Garry (2003) Extracting policy positions from political texts using words as data. American Political Science Review 97(2).
  • Replication materials (requires Stata and Wordscores suite.)
  • Original manifesto texts
  • You may also wish to see our application of Wordscores to the first and second rounds of referee and editors' letters from the APSR review process.

• Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver (2002) Estimating Irish party positions using computer wordscoring: The 2002 elections. Irish Political Studies 17(2 Winter).

• Michael Laver and Kenneth Benoit (2002) Locating TDs in policy spaces: Wordscoring Dáil speeches. Irish Political Studies 17(1, Summer): 59-73.

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