Measuring policy positions of political agents
A workshop session in which Michael J Laver discusses methods for measuring the policy positions and issue salience of political actors, with a focus on the systematic use of large language models. AI summary of the listing
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Measuring policy positions of political agents by Michael J Laver (Emeritus) Measuring the position and salience of agents' preferences on key issues is a core empirical project for social science. Methods used to do this include: surveys of experts, political elites and voters; scaling of legislative roll-calls; expert, crowd-sourced or automated analyses of text. Large language models (LLMs) can now do this much…
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