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Author: Andrea Volkens Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191665479 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 345
Book Description
The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic and political research. It is thus vital that their quality is established. The purpose of this book is to review methodological issues that have got in the way of straightforwardly using the Manifesto data since our two preceding volumes were published and to resolve them in ways which best serve users and textual analysts in general. The book is thus generally about text-based quantitative analysis with a particular focus on the quality of the CMP-MARPOR data and ways of assessing and using them, In doing so the book goes beyond normal data documentation - essential though that is - to confront the analytic issues faced by users of the data now distributed by MARPOR. It also provides concrete strategies for tackling these at the research level, with examples from the field of political representation. The problems of uncertainty, error, reliability and validity considered here are generic issues for political analysts in any area of research, so the book has an interest extending beyond the Manifesto estimates themselves - in particular to other textual analyses. In addition the book widens the range of applications introduced in our two previous volumes and discusses the extension of the manifesto project database to cover Latin America.
Author: Andrea Volkens Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191665479 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 345
Book Description
The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic and political research. It is thus vital that their quality is established. The purpose of this book is to review methodological issues that have got in the way of straightforwardly using the Manifesto data since our two preceding volumes were published and to resolve them in ways which best serve users and textual analysts in general. The book is thus generally about text-based quantitative analysis with a particular focus on the quality of the CMP-MARPOR data and ways of assessing and using them, In doing so the book goes beyond normal data documentation - essential though that is - to confront the analytic issues faced by users of the data now distributed by MARPOR. It also provides concrete strategies for tackling these at the research level, with examples from the field of political representation. The problems of uncertainty, error, reliability and validity considered here are generic issues for political analysts in any area of research, so the book has an interest extending beyond the Manifesto estimates themselves - in particular to other textual analyses. In addition the book widens the range of applications introduced in our two previous volumes and discusses the extension of the manifesto project database to cover Latin America.
Author: Ian Budge Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780199244003 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
Indispensable for any serious discussion of democratic politics, the book provides necessary information for political scientists, policy analysts, comparativists, socialists, and economists. A must for every social science library - private as well as academic or public."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Andrea Volkens Publisher: ISBN: 9780191757181 Category : Policy sciences Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Policy targets and political preferences are summarised in documents such as party manifestos. This book describes how these can be analysed quantititavely, by counting sentences devoted to each policy area. The numbers form policy indicators which can be related to government actions and spending. This book discusses problems with such analyses.
Author: Andrea Volkens Publisher: ISBN: 0199640041 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 345
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"The book is ... primarily concerned with ensuring the quality of the CMP-MARPOR data and ways of assessing and using them"--Dustjacket.
Author: Hans-Dieter Klingemann Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199296316 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
This book provides estimates of party positions, voter preferences and government policy from election programmes collected systematically for 51 countries from 1990 onwards. It provides these estimates directly for computer use on the CD ROM provided with it. The printed text provides documentation and suggests uses for the data.
Author: Sonia Alonso Publisher: CIS ISBN: 8474765927 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 151
Book Description
This book is a manual on content analysis of political texts. The first part is a self-help text for students and researchers who want to test their own research hypotheses by using this methodological tool. The second part is aimed at students and researchers interested in applying a specific approach to content analysis of political texts: the coding of elections programs. The book discusses in particular the coding system of the Manifesto Project. The third part presents a summary of the main questions and research hypotheses which have been examined in political science using Manifesto Project data, and offers numerous suggestions on how to use the data for a specific research project.
Author: Ian Budge Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429678320 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 444
Book Description
This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential template for assessing the health and workings of present day democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular preferences. Incorporating the latest findings from Big Data across the world, it provides a crucial framework showing students how to deploy these for themselves, providing straightforward, practical orientation to the scope and methods of modern political science. Key features: Everyday politics is explained through concrete applications to democracies across the world; Predictive theories illuminate what goes on at various levels of democracy; Outlines - in easy to understand terms - the basic statistical approaches that enable empirically-informed analysis; Rich textual features include chapter summaries, reviews, key points, illustrative briefings, key concepts, project and essay suggestions, relevant reading all clearly explained in ‘How to Use This Book’; Provides a firm basis for institutional and normative approaches to democratic politics; Concluding section reviews other approaches to explaining politics, assessing their strengths and weaknesses. Politics is an essential resource for students of political science and of key interest to economics, public policy analysis and more broadly the social sciences.
Author: Rob Manwaring Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429648790 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere. The book examines the ideological, policy, electoral and organisational dilemmas facing the centre-left. Taking in cases including those from the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia, and New Zealand, it outlines and explores the current and future trajectories of the family of centre-left parties. This text will be of key interest to students, scholars and interested readers of labour and social democratic politics, centre-left political parties, trade unions, the future of the centre-left, and more broadly to those studying political parties, European and comparative politics.
Author: Lucyna Czechowska Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1788972287 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 576
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In post-Cold War international relations, strategic partnerships are an emerging and distinct analytical and political category critical in understanding the dynamics of contemporary strategic cooperation between states and International Organizations. However, the idea of strategic partnerships has remained under-theorized and overshadowed by the alliance theory. Addressing this clear-cut gap in the International Relations/Foreign Policy Analysis literature, this book originally endeavors to theorize and empirically test the analytical model of strategic partnerships as a new form of sustainable international cooperation in times of globalized interdependence and turbulence.
Author: Andrea Volkens
Author: Andrea Volkens
Author: Ian Budge
Author: Andrea Volkens
Author: Andrea Volkens
Author: Ian Budge
Author: Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Author: Sonia Alonso
Author: Ian Budge
Author: Rob Manwaring
Author: Lucyna Czechowska