James Lo
University of Mannheim
25 Papers
189 Citations
James Lo is an academic researcher from University of Mannheim. The author has contributed to research in topics: Voting & Politics. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 24 publications. Previous affiliations of James Lo include University of California, Los Angeles.
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Papers
Scaling Roll Call Votes with W-NOMINATE in R
TL;DR: A software package designed to estimate Poole and Rosenthal W-NOMINATE scores in R that facilitates easier data input and manipulation, generates bootstrapped standard errors, and includes a new suite of graphics functions to display the results.
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How Quickly We Forget: The Duration of Persuasion Effects From Mass Communication
TL;DR: The authors found that the majority of the persuasive impact of advertising decays quickly, but that some effect in the presidential campaign endures for at least 6 weeks, and that these results reflect a mix of memory-based processing (whose effects last only as long as short-term memory lasts) and online processing.
Scaling Roll Call Votes with wnominate in R
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a software package designed to estimate Poole and Rosenthal W-NOMINATE scores in R. The package uses a logistic regression model to analyze political choice data, usually (though not exclusively) from a legislative setting.
Measuring Bias and Uncertainty in DW-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimates via the Parametric Bootstrap
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the work of Lewis and Poole (2004) on the parametric bootstrap to DW-NOMINATE and obtain standard errors for the legislator ideal points.
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A Common Left-Right Scale for Voters and Parties in Europe
TL;DR: This paper presented a scaling approach to jointly estimate the locations of voters, parties, and European political groups on a common left-right scale, and demonstrated that rescaled voter and party positions on the leftright dimension significantly improved the fit of a cross-national vote choice model.