Assessing the validity of the Manifesto Common Space Scores
| Autor: | Thomas König, Jan-Erik Flentje, Moritz Marbach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Manifesto
021110 strategic defence & security studies 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Construct validity 02 engineering and technology Common space 0506 political science Politics Convergent validity Scale (social sciences) Political science Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Econometrics Leapfrogging Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Electoral Studies. 47:25-35 |
| ISSN: | 0261-3794 |
| Popis: | RILE estimates based on party manifesto data suggest that political parties leapfrog on the left-right scale over time. This implausible finding has raised questions about the efficacy not only of RILE for estimating left-right positions but of coded party manifestos for political science research in general. The recently developed Manifesto Common Space Scores (MCSS), which reduce leapfrogging by accounting for the election-specific character of party manifestos, provide alternative estimates for parties left/right-positions, but little is known about their validity. This study shows that MCSS estimates exhibit greater convergent validity relative to RILE estimates when compared to other measures of parties left/right-positions. It also finds that MCSS has greater construct validity relative to RILE estimates in two prominent cases (Greece and Italy). Overall, the findings underscore the election-specific character of party manifestos and demonstrate that MCSS is a useful alternative measure of parties’ left-right positions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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