Despite the centrality of the loyalty-competence framework in research on authoritarian politics, scholars have only focused on material aspects of what elites do in their service to the dictator. Yet
This dataset contains original Manifesto Project data extended to include the logit scales introduced in William Lowe, Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov, and Michael Laver. 2011. “Scaling Policy Prefere
Replication materials for: Jonathan B. Slapin and Sven-Oliver Proksch (2008) “A Scaling Model for Estimating Time Series Policy Positions from Texts.” American Journal of Political Science. 52(3).
