Kenneth Benoit

Research interests

Publications

• American Political Science Review

  PS Political Science & Politics · 2020 · 10.1017/s1049096520000633

• Fast, Consistent Tokenization of Natural Language Text

  The Journal of Open Source Software · 2018 · 10.21105/joss.00655

• quanteda: An R package for the quantitative analysis of textual data

  The Journal of Open Source Software · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00774

• Text Analysis in R

  Communication Methods and Measures · 2017 · 10.1080/19312458.2017.1387238

• Crowd-sourced Text Analysis: Reproducible and Agile Production of Political Data

  American Political Science Review · 2016 · 10.1017/s0003055416000058

• Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

  Electoral Studies · 2016 · 10.1016/j.electstud.2016.04.014

• The dimensionality of political space: Epistemological and methodological considerations

  European Union Politics · 2012 · 10.1177/1465116511434618

• Policy positioning in the European Parliament

  European Union Politics · 2011 · 10.1177/1465116511416680

• Scaling Policy Preferences from Coded Political Texts

  Legislative Studies Quarterly · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-9162.2010.00006.x

• Coder Reliability and Misclassification in the Human Coding of Party Manifestos

  Political Analysis · 2011 · 10.1093/pan/mpr047

• Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament

  British Journal of Political Science · 2010 · 10.1017/s0007123409990469

• Presidents, Parties, and Policy Competition

  The Journal of Politics · 2009 · 10.1017/s0022381609990193

• Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions

  American Journal of Political Science · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2009.00383.x

• Electoral Laws as Political Consequences: Explaining the Origins and Change of Electoral Institutions

  Annual Review of Political Science · 2007 · 10.1146/annurev.polisci.10.072805.101608

• Party Policy in Modern Democracies

  Journal · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203028179

• Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis

  Electoral Studies · 2006 · 10.1016/j.electstud.2006.04.008

• Party Groups and Policy Positions in the European Parliament

  Party Politics · 2006 · 10.1177/1354068806068593

• The Evolution of Party Systems between Elections

  American Journal of Political Science · 2003 · 10.1111/1540-5907.00015

• Models of electoral system change

  Electoral Studies · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0261-3794(03)00020-9

• Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data

  American Political Science Review · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055403000698

• The endogeneity problem in electoral studies: a critical re-examination of Duverger's mechanical effect

  Electoral Studies · 2002 · 10.1016/s0261-3794(00)00033-0

• District magnitude, electoral formula, and the number of parties

  European Journal of Political Research · 2001 · 10.1111/1475-6765.00575

• Institutional Choice in New Democracies

  Journal of Theoretical Politics · 2001 · 10.1177/0951692801013002002

• Which Electoral Formula Is the Most Proportional? A New Look with New Evidence

  Political Analysis · 2000 · 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pan.a029822

• Democracies Really Are More Pacific (in General)

  Journal of Conflict Resolution · 1996 · 10.1177/0022002796040004006

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