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Kenneth Benoit

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9.1K

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43

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1996

Active since

Affiliations

Trinity College Dublin(Current)

London School of Economics and Political Science

New York University

University College London

University of Mannheim

Kenneth Benoit is an author at Trinity College Dublin specializing in political science, social sciences, and political behavior.

Top concepts

PoliticsSocial SciencesPolitical BehaviorPublic PolicyPolitical PartiesPolitical CommunicationLinguisticsText MiningComparative PoliticsNatural Language Processing

Publications per year

1996–2021

58

Publications

58

Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data

Michael Laver, Kenneth Benoit, John Garry · American Political Science Review · 2003 · 1.4K citations

quanteda: An R package for the quantitative analysis of textual data

Kenneth Benoit, Kohei Watanabe, H. P. Wang et al. · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2018 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Scaling Policy Preferences from Coded Political Texts

Will Lowe, Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov et al. · Legislative Studies Quarterly · 2011 · 630 citations · Full text

Education, Political Polarization, Political Behavior +16

Models of electoral system change

Kenneth Benoit · Electoral Studies · 2003 · 438 citations

Electoral System Change, Election Forecasting, Elections +5

Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis

Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver · Electoral Studies · 2006 · 394 citations

Public Policy, Hand-coded Content Analysis, Survey (Human Research) +10

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