A PoissonScaling Model for Estimating Time-Series Party Positions ...

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A Poisson Scaling Model for Estimating Time-Series Party Positions from Texts Jonathan B. Slapin ∗ PhD Candidate Department of Political Science UCLA 4289 Bunche Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 Sven-Oliver Proksch PhD Candidate Department of Political Science UCLA 4289 Bunche Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 November 17, 2006 Abstract Recent advances in computational methods for extracting party positions from political texts have provided scholars promising new ways for estimating party positions.

• party positions
• approach suffers from many drawbacks
• party manifestos
• many theories of comparative politics
• word frequencies
• expert surveys
• issues
• approach
• time