Judith Bara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1252810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Bara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Bara |
| SIGNATURE | BARA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2000-6664 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Regulating the Regulators
This article examines how legislatures debate the regulation of their own members, focusing on parliamentary self-regulation as a form of self-regarding legislation and using the UK expenses scandal of 2009 as a central case. Using automated content analysis, the study investigates thematic patterns in the parliamentary debate of 29 June 2009 and compares them with five additional debates on MPs’ conduct spanning from 1975 to 2021. The analysis i…
Clear Blue Water? The 2019 Party Manifestos
Brexit may have dominated the 2019 general election campaign, but it wasn't the only issue at stake. The political parties published wide‐ranging manifestos, while their appeals also rested on established ideological reputations. This article analyses the content of the 2019 manifestos and uses the latest Manifesto Project estimates to explore ideological movement in the British party system. It reports the changing policy emphases in Conservativ…
Marching to the Left? Programmatic Competition and the 2017 Party Manifestos
This article analyses the content of the 2017 general election manifestos, and introduces the latest estimates from the Manifesto Project to explore recent ideological movements in the British party system. It reports the changing policy emphases in Conservative and Labour manifestos and the ideological positions of the major political parties in 2017. It finds that Theresa May's party produced its most left‐wing manifesto since 1964, and that Je…
Finding a niche? Challenger parties and issue emphasis in the 2015 televised leaders’ debates
Do leaders of ‘challenger’ parties adopt a ‘niche’ strategy in national televised debates? This article answers this question by analysing the content of the two multiparty televised leaders’ debates that took place ahead of the 2015 British general election. Using computer-aided text analysis (CATA), it provides reliable and valid measures of what the leaders said in both debates and develops our theoretical understanding of how challenger-party…
Public Foreplay’ or Programmes for Government? The Content of the 2015 Party Manifestos
This article analyses the content of the 2015 British General Election manifestos using manually derived Manifesto Project estimates and computer-assisted text analysis (CATA). It analyses the parties’ policy emphases, investigates their ideological positioning and movement, and further compares their policy agendas with voters’ concerns. It finds the three main parties moved slightly leftwards but continued to agree on the broad thrust of econom…
Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts
PART I: VALIDATED, AUTHORITATIVE, INDISPENSIBLE: THE MANIFESTO ESTIMATES IN POLITICAL RESEARCH PART II: VALIDITY GUARANTEES RELIABILITY: HIGH RELIABILITY LIMITS ERROR PART III: DELIVERING QUALITY DATA: COLLECTION, CODING, CONTROLS, COMMUNICATION PART IV: EXPLOITING THE MULTI-LEVEL ESTIMATES TO STUDY REPRESENTATION COMPARATIVELY
Understanding and Validating the Left-Right Scale (Rile)
This chapter focuses on the Manifesto Left—Right scale (RILE), the most widely used of the CMP-MARPOR estimates. This is partly because it is a summary indicator of the entire contents of each Manifesto. The chapter draws attention to its main characteristics: its deductive, a priori construction on the basis of independent ideological writings, rather than being inductively derived from the data-set at a particular point in time. This enables it…
Rules, Strategies and Words
This article investigates the verbal content of the 2010 prime ministerial debates using computer-aided text analysis (CATA) and functional analysis. It seeks to provide reliable measures of what the leaders said, develop our theoretical understanding of televised debates in British elections, open up the 2010 debates for potential comparison with others, and provide additional evidence by which the democratic value of the debates might be assess…
In a Different Parliamentary Voice
One question at the heart of the analysis of gender and politics is whether women and men act and speak in different ways to significant political effect. In terms of political representation, this issue is particularly important. Arguments for increasing the number of women representatives in parliament, for example, are not about an abstract numerical parity, but rest on a claim about the distinctive voice and experience that women bring to pol…
Debating Abortion, Deliberative Reciprocity and Parliamentary Advocacy
An influential model of deliberative democracy advances a principle of reciprocity as a norm of democratic debate on morally controversial issues. This norm is at odds with behaviour that has been observed in political campaigning and policy making where advocates of competing positions talk past one another. Does this inconsistency stem from a contrast between the normative and empirical or from not considering empirically plausible practices of…
Analysing Parliamentary Debate with Computer Assistance
The analysis of parliamentary debates is at the confluence of a number of developments in political science. What light can automated and semi‐automated techniques throw on such analysis? In this paper we compare two such approaches, one semi‐automated (Hamlet) and the other fully automated (Alceste). We use both approaches to identify the prominent themes in debate and to assess how far speakers who favour different positions adopt a distinct pa…
Democratic Politics and Party Competition
The 2005 Manifestos
The Manifesto Research Group, since its establishment in 1979, has analysed the main party manifestos after every British general election, so that a clear, over time picture of changing policy priorities has emerged. Other investigations have compared issue saliency within manifestos, giving the parties’ “take” on the political situation in relation to voter perceptions of what the most important issues are. This article brings these two element…
A Question of Trust
Journal Article A Question of Trust: Implementing Party Manifestos Get access Judith Bara Judith Bara Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of London and Research Fellow in Government, University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 585–599, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi053 Published: 20 July 2005
Mapping Policy Preferences
This book uniquely enriches and empowers its readers. It enriches them by giving them the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors-parties, governments, and electors in 25 democracies over the post-war period. Estimates are provided for every election and most coalitions of the post-war period and derive from the programmes, manifestos, and platforms of parties and governments themselves.…
Party Policy and Ideology
Journal Article Party Policy and Ideology: Still New Labour? Get access Judith Bara, Judith Bara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ian Budge Ian Budge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 October 2001, Pages 590–606, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.4.590 Published: 01 October 2001
The Israeli General Election 1988
A Question of Trust
Journal Article A Question of Trust: Implementing Party Manifestos Get access Judith Bara Judith Bara Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of London and Research Fellow in Government, University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 585–599, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi053 Published: 20 July 2005
Party Policy and Ideology
Journal Article Party Policy and Ideology: Still New Labour? Get access Judith Bara, Judith Bara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ian Budge Ian Budge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 October 2001, Pages 590–606, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.4.590 Published: 01 October 2001
Analysing Parliamentary Debate with Computer Assistance
The analysis of parliamentary debates is at the confluence of a number of developments in political science. What light can automated and semi‐automated techniques throw on such analysis? In this paper we compare two such approaches, one semi‐automated (Hamlet) and the other fully automated (Alceste). We use both approaches to identify the prominent themes in debate and to assess how far speakers who favour different positions adopt a distinct pa…
Debating Abortion, Deliberative Reciprocity and Parliamentary Advocacy
An influential model of deliberative democracy advances a principle of reciprocity as a norm of democratic debate on morally controversial issues. This norm is at odds with behaviour that has been observed in political campaigning and policy making where advocates of competing positions talk past one another. Does this inconsistency stem from a contrast between the normative and empirical or from not considering empirically plausible practices of…
Public Foreplay’ or Programmes for Government? The Content of the 2015 Party Manifestos
This article analyses the content of the 2015 British General Election manifestos using manually derived Manifesto Project estimates and computer-assisted text analysis (CATA). It analyses the parties’ policy emphases, investigates their ideological positioning and movement, and further compares their policy agendas with voters’ concerns. It finds the three main parties moved slightly leftwards but continued to agree on the broad thrust of econom…
In a Different Parliamentary Voice
One question at the heart of the analysis of gender and politics is whether women and men act and speak in different ways to significant political effect. In terms of political representation, this issue is particularly important. Arguments for increasing the number of women representatives in parliament, for example, are not about an abstract numerical parity, but rest on a claim about the distinctive voice and experience that women bring to pol…
Rules, Strategies and Words
This article investigates the verbal content of the 2010 prime ministerial debates using computer-aided text analysis (CATA) and functional analysis. It seeks to provide reliable measures of what the leaders said, develop our theoretical understanding of televised debates in British elections, open up the 2010 debates for potential comparison with others, and provide additional evidence by which the democratic value of the debates might be assess…
Clear Blue Water? The 2019 Party Manifestos
Brexit may have dominated the 2019 general election campaign, but it wasn't the only issue at stake. The political parties published wide‐ranging manifestos, while their appeals also rested on established ideological reputations. This article analyses the content of the 2019 manifestos and uses the latest Manifesto Project estimates to explore ideological movement in the British party system. It reports the changing policy emphases in Conservativ…
Marching to the Left? Programmatic Competition and the 2017 Party Manifestos
This article analyses the content of the 2017 general election manifestos, and introduces the latest estimates from the Manifesto Project to explore recent ideological movements in the British party system. It reports the changing policy emphases in Conservative and Labour manifestos and the ideological positions of the major political parties in 2017. It finds that Theresa May's party produced its most left‐wing manifesto since 1964, and that Je…
Finding a niche? Challenger parties and issue emphasis in the 2015 televised leaders’ debates
Do leaders of ‘challenger’ parties adopt a ‘niche’ strategy in national televised debates? This article answers this question by analysing the content of the two multiparty televised leaders’ debates that took place ahead of the 2015 British general election. Using computer-aided text analysis (CATA), it provides reliable and valid measures of what the leaders said in both debates and develops our theoretical understanding of how challenger-party…
The Israeli General Election 1988
Mapping Policy Preferences
This book uniquely enriches and empowers its readers. It enriches them by giving them the most detailed and extensive data available on the policies and preferences of key democratic actors-parties, governments, and electors in 25 democracies over the post-war period. Estimates are provided for every election and most coalitions of the post-war period and derive from the programmes, manifestos, and platforms of parties and governments themselves.…
Party Policy and Ideology
Journal Article Party Policy and Ideology: Still New Labour? Get access Judith Bara, Judith Bara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ian Budge Ian Budge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 October 2001, Pages 590–606, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.4.590 Published: 01 October 2001
A Question of Trust
Journal Article A Question of Trust: Implementing Party Manifestos Get access Judith Bara Judith Bara Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of London and Research Fellow in Government, University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 585–599, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi053 Published: 20 July 2005
Democratic Politics and Party Competition
The 2005 Manifestos
The Manifesto Research Group, since its establishment in 1979, has analysed the main party manifestos after every British general election, so that a clear, over time picture of changing policy priorities has emerged. Other investigations have compared issue saliency within manifestos, giving the parties’ “take” on the political situation in relation to voter perceptions of what the most important issues are. This article brings these two element…
Analysing Parliamentary Debate with Computer Assistance
The analysis of parliamentary debates is at the confluence of a number of developments in political science. What light can automated and semi‐automated techniques throw on such analysis? In this paper we compare two such approaches, one semi‐automated (Hamlet) and the other fully automated (Alceste). We use both approaches to identify the prominent themes in debate and to assess how far speakers who favour different positions adopt a distinct pa…
In a Different Parliamentary Voice
One question at the heart of the analysis of gender and politics is whether women and men act and speak in different ways to significant political effect. In terms of political representation, this issue is particularly important. Arguments for increasing the number of women representatives in parliament, for example, are not about an abstract numerical parity, but rest on a claim about the distinctive voice and experience that women bring to pol…
Debating Abortion, Deliberative Reciprocity and Parliamentary Advocacy
An influential model of deliberative democracy advances a principle of reciprocity as a norm of democratic debate on morally controversial issues. This norm is at odds with behaviour that has been observed in political campaigning and policy making where advocates of competing positions talk past one another. Does this inconsistency stem from a contrast between the normative and empirical or from not considering empirically plausible practices of…
Understanding and Validating the Left-Right Scale (Rile)
This chapter focuses on the Manifesto Left—Right scale (RILE), the most widely used of the CMP-MARPOR estimates. This is partly because it is a summary indicator of the entire contents of each Manifesto. The chapter draws attention to its main characteristics: its deductive, a priori construction on the basis of independent ideological writings, rather than being inductively derived from the data-set at a particular point in time. This enables it…
Rules, Strategies and Words
This article investigates the verbal content of the 2010 prime ministerial debates using computer-aided text analysis (CATA) and functional analysis. It seeks to provide reliable measures of what the leaders said, develop our theoretical understanding of televised debates in British elections, open up the 2010 debates for potential comparison with others, and provide additional evidence by which the democratic value of the debates might be assess…
Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts
PART I: VALIDATED, AUTHORITATIVE, INDISPENSIBLE: THE MANIFESTO ESTIMATES IN POLITICAL RESEARCH PART II: VALIDITY GUARANTEES RELIABILITY: HIGH RELIABILITY LIMITS ERROR PART III: DELIVERING QUALITY DATA: COLLECTION, CODING, CONTROLS, COMMUNICATION PART IV: EXPLOITING THE MULTI-LEVEL ESTIMATES TO STUDY REPRESENTATION COMPARATIVELY
Finding a niche? Challenger parties and issue emphasis in the 2015 televised leaders’ debates
Do leaders of ‘challenger’ parties adopt a ‘niche’ strategy in national televised debates? This article answers this question by analysing the content of the two multiparty televised leaders’ debates that took place ahead of the 2015 British general election. Using computer-aided text analysis (CATA), it provides reliable and valid measures of what the leaders said in both debates and develops our theoretical understanding of how challenger-party…
Public Foreplay’ or Programmes for Government? The Content of the 2015 Party Manifestos
This article analyses the content of the 2015 British General Election manifestos using manually derived Manifesto Project estimates and computer-assisted text analysis (CATA). It analyses the parties’ policy emphases, investigates their ideological positioning and movement, and further compares their policy agendas with voters’ concerns. It finds the three main parties moved slightly leftwards but continued to agree on the broad thrust of econom…
Marching to the Left? Programmatic Competition and the 2017 Party Manifestos
This article analyses the content of the 2017 general election manifestos, and introduces the latest estimates from the Manifesto Project to explore recent ideological movements in the British party system. It reports the changing policy emphases in Conservative and Labour manifestos and the ideological positions of the major political parties in 2017. It finds that Theresa May's party produced its most left‐wing manifesto since 1964, and that Je…
Clear Blue Water? The 2019 Party Manifestos
Brexit may have dominated the 2019 general election campaign, but it wasn't the only issue at stake. The political parties published wide‐ranging manifestos, while their appeals also rested on established ideological reputations. This article analyses the content of the 2019 manifestos and uses the latest Manifesto Project estimates to explore ideological movement in the British party system. It reports the changing policy emphases in Conservativ…
Regulating the Regulators
This article examines how legislatures debate the regulation of their own members, focusing on parliamentary self-regulation as a form of self-regarding legislation and using the UK expenses scandal of 2009 as a central case. Using automated content analysis, the study investigates thematic patterns in the parliamentary debate of 29 June 2009 and compares them with five additional debates on MPs’ conduct spanning from 1975 to 2021. The analysis i…
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