RMF2012 Abstracts
Session: Wednesday 4th July PM (16.00 - 17.30)
Title: Extracting Political Information From Legislative Speeches
Name: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Affiliation: London School of Economics
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The papers in this session examine legislative speeches from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, including the scaling of ideological positions, the quantification of conceptual and argumentative framing, critiques of automated content analysis, and the measurement of deliberation by legislators. The cases include policy debates on multiple issues in the European Union, US Senate debates on terrorism and abortion, congressional committee hearings on monetary policy, and budget debates in Ireland. These four papers provide the state-of-the art in political science approaches to measuring and analysing political speeches by legislators throughout various stages in the policymaking process.
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Presenter: Cheryl Schonhardt-bailey
The level of the session is: Accessible
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Presenter 1
Start time: 16:00
Presentation title: Human validation of latent trait scaling from textual data
Author: Professor Kenneth Benoit
Affiliation: London School of Economics
Presenter 2
Start time: 16:10
Presentation title: A quantitative approach to framing in political speech
Author: Dr Eyal Sagi
Affiliation: Northwestern University
Presenter 3
Start time: 16:20
Presentation title: Framing policy debates in the EU: new techniques to answer old questions
Author: Professor Christine Mahoney
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Presenter 4
Start time: 16:30
Presentation title: Is there a single 'right' way to study political text? Legislative hearings on monetary policy, as viewed from three different perspectives
Author: Dr Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Affiliation: London School of Economics
Presenter 5
Start time: 16:40
Presentation title: Discussant for papers
Author: Professor Andre Salem
Affiliation: University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle
Presenter 6
Start time: 17:00
Presentation title: Chair of panel, leading Q & A
Author: Mr Derek Valles
Affiliation: London School of Economics
Presenter 7
Start time: 17:00
Presentation title: Framing policy debates in the EU: new techniques to answer old questions
Author: Dr Heike Kluever
Affiliation: Oxford University