Positions of political actors

Papers

• "Electoral Platforms, Political Positions and Their Evolution: A Spatial Model of Coded Political Texts". Working paper, August 2011.
• "A spatial model of electoral platforms", presented at PolMeth XXV, 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 9-13 July 2008.

Posters and Presentations

• "A Spatial Model of Coded Political Texts" Research Seminar, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1 November 2011.
• "Dimensions of Political Positions: A Spatial Model of Parties' Electoral Platforms". Poster presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 28-31, 2008.

Articles

Elff, Martin. 2009.

"Social Divisions, Party Positions, and Electoral Behaviour." Electoral Studies 28(2): 297--308.

Book

Elff, Martin. 2006.

Politische Ideologien, soziale Konflikte und Wahlverhalten: Die Bedeutung politischer Angebote der Parteien für den Zusammenhang zwischen sozialen Merkmalen und Parteipräferenzen in zehn westeuropäischen Demokratien. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Chapters

Elff, Martin. 2009.

"Auswertungsprobleme mit den Daten des Comparative Manifestos Project." Pp. 310-330 in Joachim Behnke, Natalie Behnke, and Kai-Uwe Schnapp. Datenwelten. Datenerhebung und Datenbestände in der Politikwissenschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos.