Estimating the policy positions of political actors

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  • 政党や政治家の政策的な立場を推定する
  • コンピュータによる自動コーディングの試み
  • an application of computerized coding to the Japanese policy documents

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This paper surveys the various methodologies for estimating policy positions of political actors, and speculates on the current state and the future development prospects of these methodologies in the Japanese context. Above methodologies can be largely divided into two: text analysis of policy documents and questionnaire survey. Text analysis has its advantage over surveys in that it allows objective extraction of political issues. However, there is a room for improvement in terms of the analysis cost and the reliability of the result, since the process is executed by human coders. In order to counter these problems, we propose the computerized coding scheme. We demonstrate the effectiveness and the potential of this methodology by applying it to the manifestoes of political parties in the national elections in year 2005 and 2007.

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  • CRID
    1390282680280539776
  • NII Article ID
    130005439927
  • DOI
    10.14854/jaes.25.1_61
  • ISSN
    18840353
    09123512
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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