Politics and political conflict often occur in the written and spoken word. Scholars have long
recognized this, but the massive costs of analyzing even moderately sized collections of …

Recent advances in computational content analysis have provided scholars promising new
ways for estimating party positions. However, existing text‐based methods face challenges …

According to the classic partisan theory of spending, leftist parties are expected to increase
government spending, and rightist parties are expected to decrease it. We argue that this …

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 …

The Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) data are the most popular source for parties'
positions on the left–right and other ideological and policy dimensions. Over the past few …

Political Choice Matters investigates the extent to which class and religion influence party
choice in contemporary democracies. Rather than the commonly-assumed process in which …

The ability of parliamentarians to ask questions of members of the executive either in written
form or on the floor of the chamber is a feature of many legislatures. Parliamentary questions …

Within the rapidly growing literature on positioning political parties along policy dimensions,
the rich data series collected by the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) has been widely …

Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are
analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm–Support …

How do parties decide which issues to emphasize during electoral competition? We argue
that the answer to this question depends on how parties of the left and of the right respond to …