1. Comparative Manifesto Data Quality: Assessing the influence of personal characteristics on the reliability of manifesto data.
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Lacewell, Onawa Promise and Werner, Annika
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POLITICAL manifestoes , *DATA quality , *COMPARATIVE studies , *RELIABILITY (Personality trait) , *CONTENT analysis , *POLITICAL attitudes - Abstract
This paper employs an experimental research design to evaluate the influence of cultural background and political attitudes on the reliability of human content analysis within the context of the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP). Recent critiques suggest that personal characteristics of human coders (i.e. cultural background and political beliefs) may influence this category allocation and the overall quality of the CMP data. Employing an experimental design, we assess the validity of such critiques by controlling for coders' regional background, age, gender, education level, and coding experience we can examine the influence of these variables on code allocation for each fabricated manifesto. The results of this experiment allow us to make new, more empirically solid conclusions concerning the general reliability of human content analysis and, more specifically, the reliability of the Comparative Manifesto coding procedure in providing high quality data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011