Replication data for: The Role of Language in the Automatic Coding of Political Texts

Replication data for: Ruedin, D. 2013. “The Role of Language in the Automatic Coding of Political Texts.” Swiss Political Science Review. Party manifestos of 13 parties at the 2011 Swiss national election were coded using Wordscores and an keyword-based dictionary approach (Yoshikoder). Also included are three different expert estimates. **Variables**: party: Party abbreviation, using German-language abbreviations [AL, BDP, CSP, CVP, EDU Leitbild, FDP, GPS, JEVP Portrait, JGPS, Piraten, SD, SPS, SVP] --- ex.lad.09: Expert positions in Ladner 2009 --- ex.eup.10: Expert positions from EU Profiler 2010 --- ex.bl.06: Expert positions from Benoit & Laver 2006 --- yks.count.de: Yoshikoder count, German language, short section --- yks.rate.de: Yoshikoder rate, German language, short section --- yks.count.fr: Yoshikoder count, French language, short section --- yks.rate.fr: Yoshikoder rate, French language, short section --- ykf.count.de: Yoshikoder count, German language, full document --- ykf.rate.de: Yoshikoder rate, German language, full document --- ykf.count.fr: Yoshikoder count, French language, full document --- ykf.rate.fr: Yoshiko der rate, French language, full document --- wss.de: Wordscores, German language, short section --- wss.fr: Wordscores, French language, short section --- wsf.de: Wordscores, German language, full document --- wsf.fr: Wordscores, French language, full document --- wss.stem.fr: Wordscores, French language, short section, stemmed --- wsf.stem.de: Wordscores, German language, short section, stemmed --- wsf.stem.fr: Wordscores, French language, full document, stemmed --- wss.stop.de: Wordscores, German language, full document, stemmed --- wss.stop.fr: Wordscores, French language, short section, stopwords --- wsf.stop.de: Wordscores, German language, full document, stopwords --- wss.stem.de: Wordscores, German language, short section, stopwords --- wsf.stop.fr: Wordscores, French language, full document, stopwords --- Wordscore analysis uses GPS and SVP from Ladner 2009 as reference texts.