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  • Benoit, Kenneth (2024). AI and data science for public policy. LSE Public Policy Review, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.115 picture_as_pdf
  • Däubler, Thomas, Benoit, Kenneth (2022). Scaling hand-coded political texts to learn more about left-right policy content. Party Politics, 28(5), 834 - 844. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688211026076 picture_as_pdf
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Munger, Kevin, Spirling, Arthur (2019). Measuring and explaining political sophistication through textual complexity. American Journal of Political Science, 63(2), 491 - 508. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12423 picture_as_pdf
  • Welbers, Kasper, Van Atteveldt, Wouter, Benoit, Kenneth (2017). Text analysis in R. Communication Methods and Measures, 11(4), 245-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2017.1387238
  • Amador Diaz Lopez, Julio Cesar, Collignon-Delmar, Sofia, Benoit, Kenneth, Matsuo, Akitaka (2017). Predicting the Brexit vote by tracking and classifying public opinion using Twitter data. Statistics, Politics and Policy, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/spp-2017-0006
  • Nulty, Paul, Theocharis, Yannis, Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Parnet, Olivier, Benoit, Kenneth (2016). Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Electoral Studies, 44, 429-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2016.04.014
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Conway, Drew, Lauderdale, Benjamin E., Laver, Michael, Mikhaylov, Slava (2016). Crowd-sourced text analysis: reproducible and agile production of political data. American Political Science Review, 110(2), 278 - 295. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055416000058
  • Schwarz, Daniel, Traber, Denise, Benoit, Kenneth (2015). Estimating intra-party preferences: comparing speeches tovotes. Political Science Research and Methods, 5(2), 379-396. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2015.77
  • Herzog, Alexander, Benoit, Kenneth (2015). The most unkindest cuts: speaker selection and expressed government dissent during economic crisis. Journal of Politics, 77(4), 1157 - 1175. https://doi.org/10.1086/682670
  • Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth (2015). The basic arithmetic of legislative decisions. American Journal of Political Science, 59(2), 275 - 291. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12111
  • Lowe, Will, Benoit, Kenneth (2013). Validating estimates of latent traits from textual data using human judgment as a benchmark. Political Analysis, 21(3), 298-313.
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael, Lowe, Will, Mikhaylov, Slava (2012). How to scale coded text units without bias: a response to Gemenis. Electoral Studies, 31(3), 605-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2012.05.004
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2012). The dimensionality of political space: epistemological and methodological considerations. European Union Politics, 13(2), 194-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116511434618
  • Mikhaylov, Slava, Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth (2012). Coder reliability and misclassification in the human coding of party manifestos. Political Analysis, 20(1), 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpr047
  • Däubler, Thomas, Benoit, Kenneth, Mikhaylov, Slava, Laver, Michael (2012). Natural sentences as valid units for coded political texts. British Journal of Political Science, 42(04), 937-951. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123412000105
  • McElroy, Gail, Benoit, Kenneth (2012). Policy positioning in the European Parliament. European Union Politics, 13(1), 150-167. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116511416680
  • Lowe, Will, Benoit, Kenneth, Mikhaylov, Slava, Laver, Michael (2011). Scaling policy preferences from coded political texts. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 36(1), 123-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-9162.2010.00006.x
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Marsh, Michael (2010). Incumbent and challenger campaign spending effects in proportional electoral systems: the Irish elections of 2002. Political Research Quarterly, 63(1), 159-173. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912908325081
  • McElroy, Gail, Benoit, Kenneth (2010). Party policy and group affiliation in the European Parliament. British Journal of Political Science, 40(02), p. 377. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123409990469
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael, Mikhaylov, Slava (2009). Treating words as data with error: uncertainty in text statements of policy positions. American Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 495-513. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2009.00383.x
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Bräuninger, Thomas, Debus, Marc (2009). Challenges for estimating policy preferences: announcing an open access archive of political documents. German Politics, 18(3), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644000903055856
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2009). Irish political parties and policy stances on European integration. Irish Political Studies, 24(4), 447-466. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907180903274743
  • Wiesehomeier, Nina, Benoit, Kenneth (2009). Presidents, parties, and policy competition. Journal of Politics, 71(04), p. 1435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381609990193
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Marsh, Michael (2009). A relative impact ranking of political studies in Ireland. Economic and Social Review, 40(3), 269-298.
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2008). Compared to what?: a comment on "A robust transformation procedure for interpreting political text" by Martin and Vanberg. Political Analysis, 16(1), 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpm020
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Marsh, Michael (2008). The campaign value of incumbency: a new solution to the puzzle of less effective incumbent spending. American Journal of Political Science, 52(4), 874-890. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00348.x
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2007). Electoral laws as political consequences: explaining the origins and change of electoral institutions. Annual Review of Political Science, 10(1), 363-390. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.10.072805.101608
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2007). Benchmarks for text analysis: a response to Budge and Pennings. Electoral Studies, 26(1), 130-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2006.04.001
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2007). Estimating party policy positions: comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis. Electoral Studies, 26(1), 90-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2006.04.008
  • Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth (2007). Le changement des systèmes partisans et la transformation des espaces politiques. Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 14(2), 303-324. https://doi.org/10.3917/ripc.142.0303
  • McElroy, Gail, Benoit, Kenneth (2007). Party groups and policy positions in the European Parliament. Party Politics, 13(1), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068806068593
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Giannetti, Daniela, Laver, Michael (2006). Voter strategies with restricted choice menus. British Journal of Political Science, 36(03), 459-485. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000712340600024X
  • Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth, Sauger, Nicolas (2006). Policy competition in the 2002 French legislative and presidential elections. European Journal of Political Research, 45(4), 667-697. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2006.00313.x
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2006). Duverger's law and the study of electoral systems. French Politics, 4(1), 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fp.8200092
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael, Arnold, Christine, Pennings, Paul, Hosli, Madeleine O. (2005). Measuring national delegate positions at the convention on the future of Europe using computerized word scoring. European Union Politics, 6(3), 291-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116505054834
  • Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth (2005). Estimating party policy positions: Japan in comparative context. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 6(2), 187-209. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1468109905001830
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2005). Mapping the Irish policy space: voter and party spaces in preferential elections. Economic and Social Review, 36(2), 83-108.
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Hayden, Jacqueline (2004). Institutional change and persistence: the evolution of Poland's electoral system, 1989–2001. Journal of Politics, 66(02), 396-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00157.x
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2004). Models of electoral system change. Electoral Studies, 23(3), 363-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0261-3794(03)00020-9
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Marsh, Michael (2003). Campaign spending in the local government elections of 1999. Irish Political Studies, 18(2), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1364298042000227622
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2003). Estimating Irish party policy positions using computer wordscoring: the 2002 election – a research note. Irish Political Studies, 18(1), 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907180312331293249
  • Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth, Garry, John (2003). Extracting policy positions from political texts using words as data. American Political Science Review, 97(2), 311-331. https://doi.org/10.1017.S0003055403000698
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Marsh, Michael (2003). For a few euros more: campaign spending effects in the Irish local elections of 1999. Party Politics, 9(5), 561-582. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688030095003
  • Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth (2003). The evolution of party systems between elections. American Journal of Political Science, 47(2), 215-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-5907.00015
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2002). The endogeneity problem in electoral studies: a critical re-examination of Duverger's mechanical effect. Electoral Studies, 21(1), 35-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0261-3794(00)00033-0
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2002). Like déjà vu all over again: the Hungarian parliamentary elections of 2002. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 18(4), 119-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/714003616
  • Laver, Michael, Benoit, Kenneth (2002). Locating TDs in policy spaces: the computational text analysis of Dáil speeches. Irish Political Studies, 17(1), 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/714003143
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Schiemann, John W. (2001). Institutional choice in new democracies: bargaining over Hungary's 1989 electoral law. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 13(2), 153-182. https://doi.org/10.1177/0951692801013002002
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2001). District magnitude, electoral formula, and the number of parties. European Journal of Political Research, 39(2), 203-224. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.00575
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2001). Book review: Doing research in political science: an introduction to comparative methods and statistics. Acta Politica, 36, 107-109.
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2000). Which electoral formula is the most proportional?: a new look with new evidence. Political Analysis, 8(4), 381-388.
    • Book
  • Giannetti, Daniela, Benoit, Kenneth (Eds.) (2008). Intra-party politics and coalition governments. Routledge.
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2006). Party policy in modern democracies. Routledge.
    • Chapter
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Wiesehomeier, Nina (2009). Expert judgments. In Pickel, Susanne, Pickel, Gert, Lauth, Hans-Joachim, Jahn, Detlef (Eds.), Methoden Der Vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft (pp. 497-516). VS Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91826-6_25
  • McElroy, Gail, Benoit, Kenneth (2009). Party group switching in the European Parliament. In Heller, William B., Mershon, Carol (Eds.), Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Giannetti, Daniela, Benoit, Kenneth (2008). Intra-party politics and coalition governments in parliamentary democracies. In Giannetti, Daniela, Benoit, Kenneth (Eds.), Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments . Routledge.
  • Giannetti, Daniela, Benoit, Kenneth (2008). Intra-party politics and coalition governments: concluding remarks. In Giannetti, Daniela, Benoit, Kenneth (Eds.), Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments . Routledge.
  • Gwiazda, Anna, Benoit, Kenneth (2006). Hungary: united in support, divided by borders. In König, Thomas, Hug, Simon (Eds.), Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution (pp. 119-127). Routledge.
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2005). Hungary: holding back the tiers. In The Politics of Electoral Systems . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199257566.003.0011
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael, Giannetti, Daniela (2004). Multiparty split-ticket voting estimation as an ecological inference problem. In King, Gary, Rosen, Ori, Tanner, Martin A. (Eds.), Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies (pp. 333-350). Cambridge University Press.
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2002). Hungary. In Pendergast, Sara, Pendergast, Thomas (Eds.), Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies . Gale.
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2001). Authoritarianism. In Michie, Jonathan (Ed.), Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences . Routledge.
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2001). Evaluating Hungary's mixed‐member electoral system. In Shugart, Matthew Soberg, Wattenberg, Martin P. (Eds.), Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: the Best of Both Worlds? (pp. 477-493). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/019925768X.003.0022
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2001). Military dictatorship. In Michie, Jonathan (Ed.), Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences . Routledge.
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2001). One-party state. In Michie, Jonathan (Ed.), Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences . Routledge.
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael, Mikhaylov, Slava (2007-08-30 - 2007-09-02) Mapping policy preferences with uncertainty: measuring and correcting error in comparative manifesto project estimates [Paper]. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, United States, USA.
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Baturo, Alex (2005-09-08 - 2005-09-10) National party competition and support for European integration [Paper]. ECPR General Conference, Budapest, Hungary, HUN.
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2005-07-10 - 2005-07-14) The integer arithmetic of legislative dynamics [Paper]. Workshop on Party Switching, VA, United States, USA.
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2002-04-03 - 2002-04-06) Extracting policy positions from political texts using phrases as data: a research note [Paper]. Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, United States, USA.
    • Dataset
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Silge, Julia, Fay, Colin, Hvitfeldt, Emil, Mastny, Tim, Erickson, Jeff, Hester, Jim, Jayasuriya, Kanishka, Dobbyn, Amanda & De Sousa, Luis et al (2024). juliasilge/tidytext: tidytext 0.4.2. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.595364
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Barnier, Julien, Privé, Florian (2023). juba/rainette: CRAN v0.3.1. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6047058
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Selivanov, Dmitriy, Mullen, Lincoln, Bickel, Manuel, He, Yiyang, Falbel, Daniel, Hirsch, Michael, Littlefield, Tyler (2020). dselivanov/text2vec: CRAN 0.6 release. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3355365
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Rieger, Jonas (2019). Docma-TU/tosca: tosca 0.2-0. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3591068
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Obeng, Adam, Matsuo, Aki, Watanabe, Kohei, Müller, Stefan, Nicholls, Tom, Nulty, Paul (2019). quanteda/readtext: CRAN v0.82. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1244311
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2019). Replication Data for: Measuring and Explaining Political Sophistication Through Textual Complexity. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/9sf3ti
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Mullen, Lincoln, Selivanov, Dmitriy, Arnold, Jeffrey, Keyes, Os, Ram, Karthik (2018). ropensci/tokenizers: tokenizers 0.2.1. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1211299
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Mueller, Christian, Matsuo, Aki, Gruber, Johannes, Watanabe, Kohei, Müller, Stefan, Nulty, Paul (2018). quanteda/spacyr: CRAN v1.3.0. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1199665
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Bräuninger, Thomas, Debus, Marc, Bernauer, Julian (2017). Polidoc.net CODEBOOK: National and Regional Manifestos and other Political Documents Collected for the Research Projects "Representation in Europe: Congruence between Preferences of Elites and Voters" (REPCONG) and "The Impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European Identification" (COHESIFY). [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1067700
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Obeng, Adam, Paskhalis, Tom, Watanabe, Kohei, Wang, Haiyan, Nulty, Paul, Müller, Stefan, Lua, Jiong Wei, Matsuo, Aki & Bivand, Roger et al (2017). quanteda/quanteda: CRAN v4.3.0. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596731
  • Schwarz, Daniel, Benoit, Kenneth, Traber, Denise (2016). Replication data for: Estimating Intra-Party Preferences: Comparing Speeches to Votes. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/27702
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Herzog, Alexander (2015). Replication Data for: "The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent During Economic Crisis" by Alexander Herzog and Kenneth Benoit. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/dgxxh9
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2014). Replication data for: The Basic Arithmetic of Legislative Decisions. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/24724
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Lowe, Will (2013). Replication data for: Validating estimates of latent traits from textual data using human judgement as a benchmark. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/qwpdqj
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Lowe, Will, Mikhaylov, Slava, Laver, Michael (2011). Replication data for: The Manifesto Project data extended to include the logit scales and standard errors. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/7qne9o
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Mikhaylov, Slava, Laver, Michael (2011). Replication data for: Coder Reliability and Misclassification in the Human Coding of Party Manifestos. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/4kjzjl
    • Report
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2001). Two step forward, one steps back: electoral coordination in the Hungarian elections of 1998. Trinity College Dublin.
    • Online resource
  • Matsuo, Akitaka, Benoit, Kenneth (2017). More positive, assertive and forward-looking: how Leave won Twitter.
  • Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2006). Automated content analysis of political texts using wordscores.
  • Benoit, Kenneth R. (2005). How qualitative research really counts.
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2001). Simulation methodologies for political scientists.
    • Working paper
  • Benoit, Kenneth, McElroy, Gail (2007). A policy model of party group formation in the European Parliament. (Occasional paper series 2007.7). Tōkyō Daigaku.
  • McElroy, Gail, Benoit, Kenneth (2005). Party groups and policy positions in the European Parliamen. (IIIS discussion paper 101). Institute for International Integration Studies.
  • Chari, Raj S., Egea de Horo, Alfonso, Benoit, Kenneth, Laver, Michael (2004). Spain and European Union constitution building. (Working papers 45/2004). Real Instituto Elcano.
    • Blog post
  • Benoit, Kenneth (2 February 2022) Highlights from LSE’s CIVICA research hackathon. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf