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Does the 4th estate deliver? : towards a more direct measure of political media bias

Dewenter, Ralf; Dulleck, Uwe; Thomas, Tobias - 2016

This contribution introduces a new direct measure of political media bias by analyzing articles and newscasts with respect to the tonality on political parties and politicians. On this basis we develop an index sorting the media in the political left to right spectrum. We apply the index to...

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Supplementing Zupan's measurements of the ideological preference of US presidents

Grafton, Carl; Permaloff, Anne - In: Public choice 118 (2004) 1/2, pp. 125-131

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Federal Judge Ideology : A New Measure of Ex-Ante Litigation Risk

Huang, Allen - 2019

Drawing on the political theory of judicial decision making, our paper proposes a new and parsimonious ex ante litigation risk measure: federal judge ideology. We find that judge ideology complements existing measures of litigation risk based on industry membership and firm characteristics....

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Are Donation-Based Measures of Ideology Valid Predictors of Individual-Level Policy Preferences?

Bonica, Adam - 2018

This paper validates donation-based measures of ideology against a rich battery of policy items from the Congressional … Campaign Election Study (CCES). Donation-based measures are powerful predictors of policy preferences for a wide range of … debate in the literature over whether political donations are a valid indicator of donors' policy preferences …

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Where Does the President Stand? Measuring Presidential Ideology

Treier, Shawn - 2010

Although estimating the revealed preferences of members of Congress is straightforward, estimating the position of the president relative to Congress is not. Current estimates place the president as considerably more ideologically extreme than one would expect. These estimates, however, are very...

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Does the 4th estate deliver? : towards more direct measure of political media bias

Dewenter, Ralf; Dulleck, Uwe; Thomas, Tobias - 2016

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Does the 4th estate deliver? : towards a more direct measure of political media bias

Dewenter, Ralf; Dulleck, Uwe; Thomas, Tobias - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777326

On the measurement of voter ideology

Laméris, Maite D.; Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Garretsen, Harry - In: European journal of political economy 55 (2018), pp. 417-432

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An experimental test of the validity of survey-measured political ideology

Laméris, Maite; Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Wiese, Rasmus - 2018

We examine the predictive validity of survey-measured left-right political ideology by testing whether this measure is able to explain observed choices regarding equality versus efficiency. We study this in a real-effort distribution experiment, in which decision-makers allocate money equally or...

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An Experimental Approach to Measuring Ideological Positions in Political Text

Henderson, John A. - 2016

Though powerful as general tools, automated measures of position-taking in text often perform poorly when models of speech are difficult to develop or theoretically contested. Rather than model text, I develop an experimental approach to measure perceptions of partisanship in speech, with an...

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