Research > Measurement & Methods
My methodologically-oriented work has focused on automated content analysis, psychophysiological research, and budgetary dynamics. Published research is listed (beginning with the most recent) below.
Sarah Fioroni, Ariel Hasell, Stuart Soroka and Brian Weeks. 2022. “Constructing a Dictionary for the Automated Identification of Discrete Emotions in News Content.” OSF Preprint.
Lindsay Dun, Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2021. “Dictionaries, Supervised Learning, and Media Coverage of Public Policy,” Political Communication 38 (1-2), 140-158.
Stuart Soroka. 2019. “Skin Conductance in the Study of Politics and Communication,” in Biophysical Measurement in Experimental Social Science Research, Gigi Foster, ed., Elsevier.
Sven-OliverProksch, Will Lowe, Jens Wäckerle, and Stuart Soroka. 2019. “Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: A New Approach to Measuring Conflict in Legislative Speeches,” Legislative Studies Quarterly 44(1): 97-131.
Bryan Jones, Frank Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, Christopher Wlezien, Stuart Soroka, Martial Foucault, Abel Francois, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Chris Koske, Peter John, Peter B. Moretensen, Frederic Varone, and Stefaan Walgrave. 2009. “A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis,” Amercian Journal of Political Science 53(4): 855-873.
Jim Engle-Warnick and Stuart Soroka. 2009. “Harnessing the Power of Focal Points To Measure Social Agreement,” Working Paper 2009s-31, CIRANO, Scientific Series.
Stuart Soroka, Christopher Wlezien and Iain MacLean. 2006. “Public Expenditure in the UK: How Measures Matter,” in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), volume 169.
Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2003. “Measures and Models of Budgetary Policy,”Policy Studies Journal 31(2): 273-86.
Stuart Soroka. 2002. “Number of Responses and the Most Important Problem,” Nuffield College Politics Working Paper 2002-W34.
Stuart Soroka. 1999. “Policy Agenda-Setting Theory Revisited: A Critique of Howlett on Downs, Baumgartner and Jones, and Kingdon,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 32(4): 763-72.