Party Positions from Wikipedia Classifications of Party Ideology
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Abstract We develop a new measure of party position based on scaling ideology tags supplied in infoboxes political parties’ Wikipedia pages. Assuming simple model tag assignment, we estimate the locations parties and ideologies common space. find that recovered scale can be interpreted familiar terms “left versus right.” Estimated positions correlate well with ratings from extant large-scale expert surveys, most strongly general left–right ideology. Party estimates also show high stability test–retest scenario. Our results demonstrate Wikipedia-based approach yields valid reliable scores comparable to obtained via conventional coding methods. It thus provides potentially unlimited coverage. measurement strategy is applicable beyond Wikipedia.
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عنوان ژورنال: Political Analysis
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1047-1987', '1476-4989']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.28