Estimating policy positions using political texts: An evaluation of the Wordscores approach

This paper evaluates a recently developed method for extracting policy positions from political texts, known as Wordscores. This computerized content analysis technique is a potentially powerful tool for scholars interested in the study of political elites, since it promises an easy and efficient way of inferring policy position from texts and speeches. In this article, we provide a systematic evaluation of this promising method. Using Danish manifestos and government speeches from 1945 to 2005, we compare the policy positions extracted using Wordscores with measures of positions from the well-known Comparative Manifesto Project and cross-validate these with party expert surveys. Our analysis shows that the word scoring technique arrives at largely similar estimates to independently derived position measures and produces time series of government positions with high face validity.     

中国上市公司女性高层任职状况调查研究

本文采取系统抽样的方式,从2004年深、沪两市上市公司中抽取样本278家,根据上市公司年报中披露的相关信息,调查分析了中国上市公司中女性董事、监事及高管的比例及任职状况,对比研究了中国上市公司高层在任职方面的性别差异.研究结果表明,在中国上市公司中,女性在高层的任职比例为13.52%;女性在董事会成员中的比例为10.73%;女性在关键职位上的比例偏低,而且没有改变副职多、正职少的传统状况.另外,高层女性中拥有大专及以上学历的比例与高层男性基本相当,而高层女性的平均年龄略低于高层男性.     

监狱警察职务“双轨制”运行模式的探索

我国监狱工作在取得显著成绩的同时,仍存在着一线警力严重不足的问题。在构建社会主义和谐社会过程中,需要在制度上创新,建立监狱警察行政职务和技术职务“双轨制”的运行模式,以增强监狱一线工作的吸引力,解决监狱一线警力不足的问题,从根本上提高监狱监管安全的保障系数,最终实现监狱改造罪犯的工作目标。