The impact of party cues on manual coding of political texts

Autor(en)

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, Thomas Meyer

Abstrakt

Do coders of political texts incorporate prior beliefs about parties' issue stances into their coding decisions? We report results from a coding experiment in which ten coders were each given 200 statements on immigration that were extracted from election manifestos. Party labels in these statements were randomly assigned (including a control without party cues). Coders were more likely to code a statement as pro-immigration if it was attributed to the Greens and less likely choose the anti-immigration category if it was to the populist radical right. No effect was found for mainstream parties of the center-left and center-right. The results also suggest that coders resort to party cues as heuristics when faced with ambiguous policy statements.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Staatswissenschaft

Journal

Political Science Research and Methods

Band

6

Seiten

625-633

Anzahl der Seiten

9

ISSN

2049-8470

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2017.29

Publikationsdatum

09-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506014 Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/the-impact-of-party-cues-on-manual-coding-of-political-texts(d78651fc-3e64-4ff6-a66e-240fd85b1adf).html