Challenges for Estimating Policy Preferences: Announcing an Open Access Archive of Political Documents

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Author biographies

Kenneth Benoit is Professor of Quantitative Social Sciences at Trinity College, University of Dublin, and Head of the Department of Political Science. He received his PhD (1998) from Harvard University, Department of Government. His substantive research interests include comparative party competition, the European Parliament, electoral systems, and transitions to democracy. Much of his recent work involves estimating the electoral effects of campaign spending. He is also a leading specialist on Hungarian elections and the Hungarian electoral system. His methodological interests include statistical methodologies for the social sciences, especially those relating to measurement and quantitative text analysis. Recent data large-scale measurement projects in which he has been involved include estimating policy positions of political parties through expert surveys, manifesto coding, and text analysis.

Thomas Bräuninger is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Mannheim. His research interests include comparative politics and political economy. His articles have appeared in the BritishJournalofPoliticalScience, the EuropeanJournalofPoliticalResearch, PoliticalStudies, PublicChoiceand the JournalofTheoreticalPolitics, among others.

Marc Debus is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). His research focuses on determinants of voting behaviour, party competition and coalition politics. His articles have appeared in PartyPolitics, PublicChoice, PolitischeVierteljahresschriftand Government&Opposition, among others.