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A word frequency matrix containing word frequencies from 25 German party manifestos between 1990-2005. Obtained from Slapin and Proksch AJPS paper, also used in Lo, Slapin and Proksch.
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manifesto |
list, containing the following elements:
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Jonathan Slapin and Sven-Oliver Proksch. 2009. “A Scaling Model for Estimating Time-Series Party Positions from Texts.” American Journal of Political Science 52(3), 705-722
James Lo, Jonathan Slapin, and Sven-Oliver Proksch. 2016. “Ideological Clarify in Multiparty Competition: A New Measure and Test Using Election Manifestos.” British Journal of Political Science, 1-20
Kosuke Imai, James Lo, and Jonathan Olmsted. “Fast Estimation of Ideal Points with Massive Data.” Working Paper available at http://imai.princeton.edu/research/fastideal.html.
'poisIRT'.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | ## Not run:
## Load German Manifesto data
data(manifesto)
## Estimate variational Wordfish model
lout <- poisIRT(.rc = manifesto$data.manif,
i = 0:(ncol(manifesto$data.manif)-1),
NI=ncol(manifesto$data.manif),
.starts = manifesto$starts.manif,
.priors = manifesto$priors.manif,
.control = {list(
threads = 1,
verbose = TRUE,
thresh = 1e-6,
maxit=1000
)})
## Positional Estimates for Parties
lout$means$x
## End(Not run)
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