Publications | Kenneth Benoit

Measuring issue salience for political parties using LLMs

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Using Large Language Models to Analyze Political Texts Through Natural Language Understanding

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Forging The Future: How AI is rewriting the rules of knowledge, expertise, and practice

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AI and Data Science for Public Policy

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Scaling hand-coded political texts to learn more about left-right policy content

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Measuring and Explaining Political Sophistication Through Textual Complexity

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Fast, Consistent Tokenization of Natural Language Text

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Predicting the Brexit Vote by Tracking and Classifying Public Opinion Using Twitter Data

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Text analysis in R

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Estimating Intra-Party Preferences: Comparing Speeches to Votes

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Social Media and Political Communication in the 2014 Elections to the European Parliament

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent During Economic Crisis

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The Basic Arithmetic of Legislative Decisions

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Validating Estimates of Latent Traits From Textual Data Using Human Judgment as a Benchmark

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Natural Sentences as Valid Units for Coded Political Texts

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

How to scale coded text units without bias: A response to Gemenis

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The Dimensionality Of Political Space: Epistemological And Methodological Considerations

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Policy Positioning in the European Parliament

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Coder Reliability and Misclassification in the Human Coding of Party Manifestos

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Scaling Policy Preferences From Coded Political Texts

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Incumbent and Challenger Campaign Spending Effects in Proportional Electoral Systems: The Irish Elections of 2002

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Irish Political Parties and Policy Stances on European Integration

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Presidents, Parties And Policy Competition

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A Relative Impact Ranking of Political Studies In Ireland

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Challenges for estimating policy preferences: Announcing an open access archive of political documents

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Campaign Value of Incumbency: A New Solution to the Puzzle of Less Effective Incumbent Spending

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Compared to What? A Comment on ‘A Robust Transformation Procedure for Interpreting Political Text’ by Martin and Vanberg

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Le changement des systèmes partisans et la transformation des espaces politiques

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Benchmarks for Text Analysis: A Reply to Budge and Pennings

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Party Groups and Policy Positions in the European Parliament

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Policy Competition in the 2002 French Legislative and Presidential Elections

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Voter Strategies with Restricted Choice Menus

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Duverger’s Law and the Study of Electoral Systems

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Mapping the Irish Policy Space: Voter and Party Spaces in Preferential Elections

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Estimating Party Policy Positions: Japan in Comparative Context

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Measuring National Delegate Positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe Using Computerized Wordscoring

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Models of Electoral System Change

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Institutional Change and Persistence: The Evolution of Poland’s Electoral System 1989-2001

Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Campaign Spending in the Local Government Elections of 1999

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Estimating Irish Party Positions Using Computer Wordscoring: The 2002 Elections

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

For A Few Euros More: Campaign Spending Effects in the Irish Local Elections of 1999

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data

Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 +0000

The Evolution of Party Systems Between Elections

Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Randomized Treatment Study of Inosiplex Versus Combined Inosiplex and Intraventricular Interferon-α

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Kenneth Benoit is a co-author.

Like Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Hungarian Elections of 2002

Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Locating TDs in Policy Spaces: Wordscoring Dáil Speeches

Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The Endogeneity Problem in Electoral Studies: A Critical Reexamination of Duverger’s Mechanical Effect

Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 +0000

District Magnitude, Electoral Formula, and the Number of Parties

Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Institutional Choice in New Democracies: Bargaining Over Hungary’s 1989 Electoral Law

Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

A Preview of EI and EzI: Programs for Ecological Inference

Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Hungary’s Two-Vote Electoral System

Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Democracies Really Are More Pacific (In General): Reexamining Regime Type and War Involvement

Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Party Policy in Modern Democracies

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

quanteda: quantitative analysis of textual data (R package)

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Party Policy in Modern Democracies

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Wordscores: Software for Coding Political Texts

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

EzI: A(n Easy) Program for Ecological Inference

Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990

Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Text as Data: An Overview

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Dumbing Down? Trends in the Complexity of Political Communication

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Text Analysis: Estimating Policy Preferences From Written and Spoken Words

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Critical Election 2010. The Realignment of the Hungarian Party System in the Left-Right Dimension

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Party Group Switching in the European Parliament

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Intraparty politics and coalition governments in parliamentary democracies

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Intraparty politics and coalition governance: concluding remarks

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Expert Judgments

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hungary: Protection of Ethnic Minorities and Institutional Balance

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hungary: Holding Back the Tiers

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Multi-Party Split-Ticket Voting Estimation as an Ecological Inference Problem

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Evaluating Hungary’s Mixed-Member Electoral System

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Votes and Seats: The Hungarian Electoral Law and the 1994 Parliamentary Elections

Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Forecasting the Outcome of the 1998 Parliamentary Elections

Thu, 01 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Electoral Systems and Minority Representation

Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Textual Data Science with R

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Automated Content Analysis of Political Texts using Wordscores

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

How Qualitative Research Really Counts

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Hungary

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Simulation Methodologies for Political Scientists

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Review of Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics, by Paul Pennings, Hans Keman and Jan Kleinnijenhuis

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Authoritarianism; Military Dictatorship; One-party State

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Forecasting the 1998 [Hungarian] Parliamentary Elections

Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Why I Use Linux

Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000

A Policy Model of Party Group Formation in the European Parliament

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Party Groups and Policy Positions in the European Parliament

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Spain and European Union Constitution-Building

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Bargaining and Institutional Choice: The Origins of Hungary’s 1989 Electoral Law

Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Re-examining Regime Type and War Involvement

Sat, 01 Jan 1994 00:00:00 +0000

Scaling Text with the Class Affinity Model

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Mapping Policy Preferences with Uncertainty: Measuring and Correcting Error in Comparative Manifesto Project Estimates

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

National Party Competition and Support for European Integration

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

The Integer Arithmetic of Legislative Dynamics

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Extracting Policy Positions From Political Texts Using Phrases as Data: A Research Note

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Electoral Coordination in the Hungarian Elections of 1998

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000