Kenneth Benoit
Professor
Political Science
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Kenneth Benoit is currently Professor of Quantitative Social Sciences and Head, Department of Political Science, at Trinity College, University of Dublin. He received his Ph.D. (1998) from Harvard University, Department of Government. Professor Benoit's substantive research interests include comparative party competition, the European Parliament, electoral systems, and transitions to democracy. Much of his recent work involves estimating the electoral effects of campaign spending. He is also a leading specialist on Hungarian elections and the Hungarian electoral system. His methodological interests include statistical methodologies for the social sciences, especially those relating to measurement and quantitative text analysis. Recent data large-scale measurement projects in which he has been involved include estimating policy positions of political parties through expert surveys, manifesto coding, and text analysis. He also work occasionally as a consultant for political parties, governmental organizations, and media for all business related to elections, especially computer modeling and forecasting of election outcome
Research Interest
interested in statistical methodology for the social sciences, surveys of expert judgments, computerized content analysis, statistical forecasting of election results, and the quantitative analysis of political party competition. My other research in interests include the effects of campaign finances and comparative electoral systems.
Publications
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Benoit, Kenneth and Michael Laver, Compared to What? A Comment on `A Robust Transformation Procedure for Interpreting Political Text by Martin and Vanberg. , Political Analysis , 16, (1), 2008, p101 - 111 Journal Art
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Giannetti, Daniela and Kenneth Benoit, Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments in Parliamentary Democracies - Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science , London, Routledge, 2008, 1-256p
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Kenneth Benoit and Michael Marsh, The Campaign Value of Incumbency: A New Solution to the Puzzle of Less Effective Incumbent Spending, American Journal of Political Science, 52, (4), 2008, p874 - 890
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Kenneth Benoit, Irish Political Parties and Policy Stances on European Integration, Irish Political Studies, 24, (4), 2009, p447 - 466
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Party Group Switching in the European Parliament in, editor(s)Heller, William and Carol Mershon , Legislative Party Switching and the Foundations of Political Parties, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp147-172 , [Gail McElroy and Kenneth Benoit]
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Kenneth Benoit and Michael Marsh, A Relative Impact Ranking of Political Studies in Ireland, Economic and Social Review, 40, (3), 2009, p269 - 298
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Kenneth Benoit, Thomas Bräuninger, and Marc Debus, Challenges for estimating policy preferences: Announcing an open access archive of political documents, German Politics, 18, (3), 2009, p441-454
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Nina Wiesehomeier and Kenneth Benoit, Presidents, Parties And Policy Competition, Journal of Politics, 71, 2009, p1435-1447
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Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov, and Michael Laver, Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions, American Journal of Political Science, 53, (2), 2009
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Gail McElroy & Kenneth Benoit, Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament, British Journal of Political Science, 40, (2), 2010, p377 - 398
