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Wordscores: a standalone construct

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Political methodology

a method that estimates the policy positions of political texts by comparing their word frequencies with those of reference texts whose positions are known.

In political methodology, Wordscores refers to a method that estimates the policy positions of political texts by comparing their word frequencies with those of reference texts whose positions are known. This meaning comes from Laver (2003) in American Political Science Review.[1]

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References

  1. Laver, M., Benoit, K., & Garry, J. (2003). Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data. American Political Science Review, 97(02). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055403000698

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