Synopses & Reviews
Enriching and empowering its readers, this work gives the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors: parties, governments, and electors in twenty-five democracies over the whole post-war period. It provides a helpful CD-ROM, documentation and suggested uses for data, as well as extensive background information. Economists, socialists, and historians will find the book highly useful; political scientists, policy analysts, rational choice theorists, and comparativists will find it a must.
Description
System requirements: Windows 95 or above, Netscape 4.0 or above required; Mac OS, Netscape 3.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0 or above required. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION Content Analysis and Political Texts,
Ian Budge and Judith Bara1. PART I: Policy Spaces, Preferences and Texts Finally! Comparative over-time mapping of policy movement, 1945-1998, Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Ian Budge
2. Manifesto-based research : A critical review, Ian Budge and Judith Bara
3. Theory and measurement of party policy positions, Ian Budge
4. PART II: Measurement Procedures Quantifying election programmes over time and space: Coding procedures and controls, Andrea Volkens
5. Checking the party policy estimates: Reliability, Derek J. Hearl
6. Checking the party policy estimates: Validity, Michael D. McDonald and Sylvia Mendes
7. Using manifesto estimates to validate computerised analyses, Judith Bara
8. Extending party estimates to governments and electors, Hee-Min Kim and Richard C. Fording
9. Using the CD ROM, Eric Tanenbaum