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dc.contributor.authorDINAS, Elias
dc.contributor.authorGEMENIS, Kostas
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-19T12:47:19Z
dc.date.available2011-04-19T12:47:19Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationParty Politics, 2010, 16, 4, 427-450en
dc.identifier.issn1354-0688
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/16443
dc.description.abstractWithin 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 considered as the most systematic and objective source of information. For estimating parties' positions on the Left-Right dimension alone, several different methods have been proposed which make use of the CMP data. However, unless a new method is proposed, there will seldom be any attempt to check the robustness of the findings across different measurement strategies. In this article, we focus on the parties in Greece, which have been notoriously incorrectly positioned by the 'standard' method proposed by the CMP. We contrast the 'standard' method with various proposed alternatives and show that the latter outperform the former both in terms of face and convergent validity and in terms of reliability. In addition, we show that this cross-checking is essential, since different methods often lead to diametrically opposite results.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.subjectideology
dc.subjectleft-right
dc.subjectparty manifestos
dc.subjectreliability
dc.subjectvalidity
dc.titleMeasuring Parties' Ideological Positions with Manifesto Data a Critical Evaluation of the Competing Methods
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1354068809343107
dc.identifier.volume16
dc.identifier.startpage427
dc.identifier.endpage450
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