Analyzing Manifestos in their Electoral Context A New Approach Applied to Austria, 2002–2008

Dolezal, Martin; Ennser‐Jedenastik, Laurenz; Müller, Wolfgang C.; Winkler, Anna Katharina

doi:10.1017/psrm.2015.38

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“…These numerical codes thus capture the fact that the FPÖ has made supportive statements regarding the policies that fall under the three-issue categories (both generic support and demands for a benefit increase are recorded with a value of 1). Applied across thousands of natural sentences in dozens of manifestos, this approach produces an extremely detailed account of a party's stated policy positions (for an in-depth description of the coding procedure and reliability tests, see Dolezal et al, 2016).…”

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What drives partisan conflict and consensus on welfare state issues?

Ennser‐Jedenastik

2020

J. Pub. Pol.

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Left-right partisan conflict has been a key driver of welfare state expansion and retrenchment over time and across countries. Yet, we know very little about how left-right differences in party appeals vary across social policy domains. Why are some issues contentious while there is broad consensus on others? This paper starts from the simple premise that partisan conflict is a function of how popular a certain policy is. Based on this assumption, it argues that the left-right gap should be (1) larger for revenue-side issues than for expenditure-side issues, (2) larger for policies targeted at groups that are viewed as less deserving and (3) larger for more redistributive programs than less redistributive ones (e.g. means-tested versus earnings-related benefits). These expectations are tested on fine-grained policy data coded from 65 Austrian party manifestos issued between 1970 and 2017 (N = 18,219). The analysis strongly supports the revenue–expenditure hypothesis and the deservingness hypothesis, but not the redistribution hypothesis.

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What drives partisan conflict and consensus on welfare state issues?

Ennser‐Jedenastik

2020

J. Pub. Pol.

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“…We derive policy statements on immigration and integration from party manifestos, and edit them to mask the original party authorship. We start out with content analysis data from the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES) that splits manifesto text into standardized coding units, and classifies each unit into one of about 700 fine-grained issue categories (see Dolezal et al 2016). We first identify all sentences that address immigration or the integration of migrants.…”

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The Impact of Party Cues on Manual Coding of Political Texts

Ennser‐Jedenastik¹,

Meyer²

2017

PSRM

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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 category 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 attributed 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.

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“…The issue coding scheme is extremely fine-grained, providing more than 650 policy categories (for more details of the coding scheme, see Dolezal et al, 2016). 4 …”

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Campaigning on the welfare state: The impact of gender and gender diversity

Ennser‐Jedenastik

2017

Journal of European Social Policy

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Social policy matters have long been considered women’s issues. Extant research has documented a strong link between gender and the policies of the welfare state in the legislative, executive and electoral arenas. Yet what determines the strength of this association has largely been left unexplored. Drawing on tokenism theory, this article proposes gender diversity at the group level as a key explanatory factor. It hypothesizes that the gender gap in social policy diminishes as the female representation in a political party increases. To test this argument, it examines almost 8000 press releases issued by over 600 politicians during four election campaigns in Austria between 2002 and 2013. The analysis demonstrates that women talk more about social policy issues during election campaigns than men, but that this emphasis gap disappears for parties with a more equal gender balance. These results have important implications for our understanding of the politics of gender and social policy.

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Analyzing Manifestos in their Electoral Context A New Approach Applied to Austria, 2002–2008

Cited by 52 publications

References 16 publications

What drives partisan conflict and consensus on welfare state issues?

What drives partisan conflict and consensus on welfare state issues?

The Impact of Party Cues on Manual Coding of Political Texts

Campaigning on the welfare state: The impact of gender and gender diversity

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