Class Ten Checklist

Readings

  • GRS (Ch. 14, 16.3, 20, 21.3)
  • Laver, M., Benoit, K., & Garry, J. (2003). Extracting policy positions from political texts using words as data. American Political Science Review, 97(2), 311-331.
  • Lauderdale, B. E., & Herzog, A. (2016). Measuring political positions from legislative speech. Political Analysis, 24(3), 374-394.
  • Truscott, J. S., & Romano, M. K. (2025). Measuring Judicial Ideology Through Text. Journal of Law and Courts, 1-18.

Homework

  • NA

Class Nine Learning Objectives:

  • Wordscores
  • Wordfish
  • Wordshoal


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