Texts of speeches from a no-confidence motion debated in the Irish Dáil in October 1991 over the future of the Fianna Fail-Progressive Democrat coalition. (See Laver and Benoit 2002 for details.)
data_corpus_dailnoconf1991
data_corpus_dailnoconf1991
is a corpus with 58 texts,
including docvars for name
, party
, and position
.
Laver, Michael, and Kenneth Benoit. 2002. "Locating TDs in Policy Spaces: Wordscoring Dáil Speeches." Irish Political Studies 17 (Summer): 59-73.
Laver, Michael, Kenneth Benoit, and John Garry. 2003. "Estimating policy positions from political text using words as data." American Political Science Review 97(2): 311-331.
# NOT RUN { data_dfm_dailnoconf1991 <- dfm(data_corpus_dailnoconf1991, removePunct = TRUE) fitted <- textmodel_mixfit(data_dfm_dailnoconf1991, c("Govt", "Opp", "Opp", rep(NA, 55))) (pred <- predict(fitted)) tmpdf <- data.frame(party = as.character(docvars(data_corpus_dailnoconf1991, "party")), govt = coef(pred)[,"Govt"], position = as.character(docvars(data_corpus_dailnoconf1991, "position")), stringsAsFactors = FALSE) bymedian <- with(tmpdf, reorder(paste(party, position), govt, median)) par(mar = c(5, 6, 4, 2)+.1) boxplot(govt ~ bymedian, data = tmpdf, horizontal = TRUE, las = 1, xlab = "Degree of support for government") abline(h = 7.5, col = "red", lty = "dashed") text(c(0.9, 0.9), c(8.5, 6.5), c("Goverment", "Opposition")) # }