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SUBMITTER: Benoit K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6582699 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Benoit Kenneth K Munger Kevin K Spirling Arthur A
American journal of political science 20190318 2
Political scientists lack domain-specific measures for the purpose of measuring the sophistication of political communication. We systematically review the shortcomings of existing approaches, before developing a new and better method along with software tools to apply it. We use crowdsourcing to perform thousands of pairwise comparisons of text snippets and incorporate these results into a statistical model of sophistication. This includes previously excluded features such as parts of speech an ...[more]