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

exposéA 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