Marco R. Steenbergen

TL;DR: The logic and statistical theory behind multilevel models are introduced, to illustrate how such models can be applied fruitfully in political science, and to call attention to some of the pitfalls in multileVEL analysis.

TL;DR: The CHES trend file as discussed by the authors contains measures of national party positioning on European integration, ideology and several European Union (EU) and non-EU policies for 1999−2010, and explores basic trends on party positioning since 1999.

TL;DR: This paper found strong support for an on-line model of the candidate evaluation process that in contrast to memory-based models shows that citizens are responsive to campaign information, adjusting their overall evaluation of the candidates in response to their immediate assessment of campaign messages and events.

TL;DR: In this article, the variation of anti-corruption and anti-elite saliency in party positioning across Europe was studied. And it was shown that while anticorruption salience is primarily related to the (regional) context in which a party operates, anti-ELite salience was primarily a function of party ideology, and extreme left and extreme conservative (TAN) parties are significantly more likely to emphasize antielite views.

TL;DR: The authors developed a discourse quality index (DQI) that serves as a quantitative measure of discourse in deliberation, which is rooted in Habermas' discourse ethics and provides an accurate representation of the most important principles underlying deliberation.