What matters in people's social lives? What motivates and inspires our society? How do we
enact what we know? Since the first edition published in 1980, Content Analysis has helped …

Scholars estimating policy positions from political texts typically code words or sentences
and then build left‐right policy scales based on the relative frequencies of text units coded …

This book contains an introduction into recent developments in the field of analysis of textual
data with emphasis on constructing a data matrix that is appropriate for statistical analysis …

Changes in Western European political parties in general have attracted considerable
scholarly interest, whereas changes in party competition have been almost overlooked in an …

This second edition of Doing Research in Political Science is a thoroughly revised and
updated version of the book that was originally published in 1999. In revising this edition we …

In the era of globalization, due to the prevalent cultural exchange between countries, inflows
of foreign cultural products can enrich local culture by hybridizing local and global culture …

How healthy are modern democratic institutions? In Political Democracy, Trust, and Social
Justice, Charles F. Andrain and James T. Smith seek explanations for political alienation …

Our purpose in this article is to cross-validate expert and manifesto measures of party
positioning on European integration. We compare these data with each other and with …

Recent studies have started to use media data to measure party positions and issue
salience. The aim of this article is to compare and cross-validate this alternative approach …

Radical left parties (RLPs) are diverse and several RLP subtypes have been distinguished
in the literature. However, the degree to which these subtypes are linked to significantly …