Michael J. Laver

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Michael J. Laver is affiliated with the following schools: University of Liverpool, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York University

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PhD Political Science University of Essex
Masters Political Science University of Essex
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Party Policy in Modern Democracies (2006) (1371)
Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data (2003) (1209)
Multiparty Government: The Politics of Coalition in Europe (1990) (1096)
Making and breaking governments (1996) (891)
Policy and Party Competition (1992) (809)
Estimating policy positions from political texts (2000) (557)
Representative Government in Modern Europe (1995) (528)
Scaling policy preferences from coded political texts (2011) (485)
Party Policy and Government Coalitions (1992) (447)
Coalitions and Cabinet Government (1990) (410)
A Unified Model of Cabinet Dissolution in Parliamentary Democracies (1990) (369)
Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis (2007) (354)
Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions (2009) (321)
Institutions and Strategy in Parliamentary Democracy: A Review Article@@@Rationalizing Parliament: Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France@@@Making and Breaking Governments: Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies (1998) (313)
Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government (1994) (261)
Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors (2003) (248)
Constraints on cabinet formation in parliamentary democracies (1994) (240)
Policy and the Dynamics of Political Competition (2005) (236)
Coder Reliability and Misclassification in the Human Coding of Party Manifestos (2012) (219)
MODELS OF GOVERNMENT FORMATION (1998) (198)
Crowd-sourced Text Analysis: Reproducible and Agile Production of Political Data (2016) (176)
Bargaining Theory and Portfolio Payoffs in European Coalition Governments 1945–83 (1985) (156)
Office Seeking and Policy Pursuit In Coalition Theory (1986) (137)
Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model (2011) (128)
GOVERNMENT COALITIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE (1973) (124)
The dimensionality of political space: Epistemological and methodological considerations (2012) (113)
Representative Government in Western Europe (1991) (111)
Events, equilibria and government survival (1998) (109)
The Evolution of Party Systems between Elections (2003) (108)
Private Desires, Political Action: An Invitation to the Politics of Rational Choice (1997) (106)
Government Coalitions and Intraparty Politics (1990) (99)
Position and salience in the policies of political actors (2001) (91)
Representative Government in Modern Europe: Institutions, Parties, and Governments (2005) (89)
Estimating Irish party policy positions using computer wordscoring: the 2002 election – a research note (2003) (79)
Natural Sentences as Valid Units for Coded Political Texts (2012) (77)
Measuring Policy Distances and Modelling Coalition Formation (1992) (76)
Divided Government: America is Not “Exceptional” (1991) (72)
Locating TDs in Policy Spaces: The Computational Text Analysis of Dáil Speeches (2002) (69)
Policy positions and jobs in the government (2005) (69)
Measuring Policy Positions in Political Space (2014) (69)
Divided Parties, Divided Government (1999) (69)
Coalition Theory, Government Policy and Party Policy (1992) (68)
The Policy Basis of Government Coalitions: A Comparative Investigation (1993) (64)
Party Competition and Party System Change (1989) (63)
Party Platforms, Mandates, and Government Spending (1993) (63)
Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context (2008) (61)
Spatial models of political competition with endogenous political parties (2007) (58)
Policy competition in the 2002 French legislative and presidential elections (2006) (54)
Party system dynamics and the making and breaking of Italian governments (2001) (53)
DYNAMIC FACTORS IN GOVERNMENT COALITION FORMATION (1974) (52)
Negotiation in legislatures over government formation (2011) (52)
REFERENDUM DYNAMICS AND THE IRISH DIVORCE AMENDMENT (1990) (52)
How Political Parties Emerged from the Primeval Slime: (1999) (51)
A Tournament of Party Decision Rules (2008) (50)
Benchmarks for text analysis: A response to Budge and Pennings (2007) (50)
The politics of private desires (1981) (50)
‘Exit, Voice, and Loyalty’ Revisited: The Strategic Production and Consumption of Public and Private Goods (1976) (50)
Spatial Models, Cognitive Metrics, and Majority Rule Equilibria (2009) (47)
Measuring National Delegate Positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe Using Computerized Word Scoring (2005) (46)
Party Policy in Britain 1997: Results from an Expert Survey (1998) (46)
The Sakoku Edicts and the Politics of Tokugawa Hegemony (2011) (45)
Compared to What? A Comment on “A Robust Transformation Procedure for Interpreting Political Text” by Martin and Vanberg (2007) (45)
Cabinet ministers and government formation in parliamentary democracies (1994) (43)
LOCATING TDs IN POLICY SPACES: WORDSCORING DÁIL SPEECHES (2002) (42)
Democracy, Accountability, and Representation: Government Accountability in Parliamentary Democracy (1999) (41)
Party cohesion, party discipline, and party factions in Italy (2008) (40)
Participation Bias, Durable Opinion Shifts and Sabotage through Withdrawal in Citizens' Juries (2009) (39)
The basic arithmetic of legislative decisions (2015) (38)
Understanding Government Survival: Empirical Exploration or Analytical Models? (1999) (36)
Dynamic approaches to government formation and the generic instability of decisive structures in Japan (2001) (35)
Mapping the Irish Policy Space: Voter and Party Spaces in Preferential (2005) (32)
Making and Breaking Governments: Governments and parliaments (1996) (32)
Ministrables and Government Formation: Munchkins, Players and Big Beasts of the Jungle (2000) (29)
How Ireland voted : the Irish general election, 1987 (1987) (28)
Cabinet government in theoretical perspective (1994) (28)
Parliaments and Coalitions: The Role of Legislative Institutions in Multiparty Governance (2012) (27)
How should we estimate the policy positions of political actors (2001) (26)
The Social Logic of Politics: Personal Networks as Contexts for Political Behavior (2005) (25)
Coalition Theory and Local Government: Coalition Payoffs in Britain (1987) (24)
Scaling Policy Positions From Coded Units of Political Texts (2009) (24)
Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model: An Agent-Based Model (2011) (23)
Voter Strategies with Restricted Choice Menus (2006) (22)
How to scale coded text units without bias: A response to Gemenis (2012) (22)
Parties and voters (1992) (22)
Analysing Structures of Party Preference in Electronic Voting Data (2004) (22)
Political Solutions to the Collective Action Problem (1980) (22)
Party policy in Ireland, 1997: results from an expert survey (1998) (20)
Policy, ideology and party distance: Analysis of election programmes in 19 democracies (1986) (19)
Party policy and cabinet portfolios in the Netherlands (1995) (19)
Cabinet Formation and Portfolio Distribution in European Multiparty Systems (2014) (19)
The relationship between party and coalition policy in Europe: an empirical synthesis (1992) (18)
Policy Payoffs in Local Government (1998) (18)
Coalitional behaviour in theory and practice: Between theoretical elegance and political reality: deductive models and cabinet coalitions in Europe (1986) (18)
Estimating Party Policy Positions: Japan in Comparative Context (2005) (16)
Ireland - politics with some social bases an interpretation based on aggregate data (1986) (16)
Coalition and Party Policy in Ireland (1992) (16)
Coalition and Fianna Fáil (1990) (16)
Representative Government in Modern Europe (Second Edition) (1995) (16)
Electing the President of the European Commission (1995) (15)
Policy and Party Competition in Japan after the Election of 2000 (2003) (15)
Party Policy and Coalition Policy in Europe (1992) (15)
Coalitional behaviour in theory and practice: Coalition or Fianna Fail? The politics of inter-party government in Ireland (1986) (15)
How Ireland voted 1992 (1993) (15)
Social choice and public policy (1986) (15)
Governmental Politics and the Dynamics of Multiparty Competition (2008) (14)
Party policy and cabinet portfolios in Ireland 1992: Results from an expert survey (1994) (13)
Theories of Government Formation and the 1996 General Election in Japan (1998) (13)
The Politics of Inner Space: Tragedies of Three Commons (1984) (13)
The Bargaining Advantages of Combining with Others (1982) (13)
Government Formation and Survival: A Rejoinder to Warwick's Reply (1999) (13)
Making and Breaking Governments: Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies (1996) (12)
Measuring patterns of party support in Ireland (1987) (12)
The Problems of Measuring Power in Europe (1978) (12)
Public, Private and Common in Outer Space: Res Extra Commercium or Res Communis Humanitatis beyond the High Frontier? (1986) (12)
Government Formation in the European Parliament (2000) (11)
Invitation to politics (1983) (11)
The Northern Ireland General Elections of 1973 (1975) (11)
Government Formation as Logrolling in High-Dimensional Issue Spaces (2020) (10)
Local and national voting in British elections: Lessons from the synchro-polls of 1979 (1979) (10)
Treating Words as Data with Error: Estimating Uncertainty in the Comparative Manifesto Project Measures (2007) (10)
Multiparty split-ticket voting estimation as an ecological inference problem (2004) (10)
STRATEGIC CAMPAIGN BEHAVIOUR FOR ELECTORS AND PARTIES: THE NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY ELECTION OF 1973 (1975) (9)
Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5th revised edition (2011) (9)
Playing Politics: The Nightmare Continues (1981) (9)
The effect of candidate gender on voting in Ireland, 1997∗ (1999) (9)
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity by Douglas Murray (2021) (9)
Locating TDs in policy spaces using computer word-scoring (2002) (9)
Agenda formation and cabinet government (1993) (8)
Proportionality, P.R. and S.T.V. in Ireland (1975) (8)
Estimating Party Policy Positions with Uncertainty Based on Manifesto Codings (2007) (7)
Ireland : Politics wi th Some Social Bases : A n Interpretation Based on Survey Data (7)
Party Policy and Cabinet Portfolios in Japan, 1996 (1998) (7)
On party policy, polarization and the breaking of moulds: The 1983 British party manifestos in context (1984) (7)
The Theory and Practice of Party Competition: Ulster 1973-75 (1976) (7)
Why Vote-seeking Parties May Make Voters Miserable (2011) (7)
A theory of minority government in parliamentary democracy (1990) (7)
The crime game (1982) (7)
On Defining Voter Rationality and Deducing a Model of Party Competition (1978) (7)
Government Formation and Public Policy (2000) (6)
INTERGOVERNMENTAL POLICY ON MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS (1977) (6)
Bargaining Theory and Cabinet Stability in European Coalition Governments 1945–1983 (1987) (6)
Participation bias and framing effects in citizens juries (2005) (6)
FISSION AND FUSION IN A PARTY SYSTEM (2001) (6)
The relationship between coalition policy and party policy (1985) (6)
Patterns of party support; social class, issues, attitudes, party policy, leaderhip factors (1987) (6)
The Logic of Plurality Voting In Multi Party Systems (1987) (6)
Spatial Models , Cognitive Metrics And Majority Voting Equilibria (2007) (5)
Electoral Systems in Europe: a gender-impact assessment (1999) (5)
Are the Liverpool Liberals Really Different? A Path Analytic Interpretation of Local Voting in Liverpool 1973–82 (1984) (5)
A New Electoral System for Ireland (1998) (5)
Norman Schofield: The political economy of democracy and tyranny (2009) (5)
Election results and coalition possibilities in Ireland (1992) (5)
Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (2022) (5)
Party Choice and Social Structure in Ireland (1986) (5)
Cultural Aspects of Loyalty: On Hirschman and Loyalism in Ulster (1976) (5)
Do ideologically intransigent parties affect the policy positions of other parties? And … rigorously characterizing output from computational models of party competition (2007) (4)
Making and Breaking Governments: Party systems and cabinet stability (1996) (4)
Endogenous birth and death of political parties in dynamic party competition (2011) (4)
Shifts of meaning within explanations of voting and party competition (1983) (4)
The Role and Future of the Upper House in Ireland (2002) (4)
Legislative coalitions with incomplete information (2017) (4)
The Current State of Political Science in Ireland (2007) (4)
Agent-Based Models of Polarization and Ethnocentrism (2020) (4)
Patrick Buckland : The Factory of Grievances. Devolved Government in Northern Ireland 1921-1939 (1980) (3)
Portfolio allocation and government formation in Europe and Japan (1996) (3)
The Integer Arithmetic of Legislative Dynamics (2005) (3)
Many publications, but still no evidence (1999) (3)
Coalition Governance with Incomplete Information (2019) (3)
Spain and European Union constitution building (2004) (3)
Party cohesion, party factions and legislative discipline in Italy (2005) (2)
Extracting policy positions from political texts using phrases as data: a research note (2002) (2)
Introduction: Political Change and the 1996 General Election in Japan (1998) (2)
Participation bias, durable opinion shifts and framing effects in citizens' juries (2003) (2)
A word of thanks to Mogens Pedersen (1995) (2)
How to Be Sophisticated, Lie, Cheat, Bluff and Win at Politics (1978) (2)
Ideology, Strategy and Party Change: Spatial Analyses of Post-War Election Programmes in 19 Democracies: Northern Ireland 1921–1973: party manifestos and platforms. (1987) (2)
A new expert coding methodology for political text (2011) (2)
Campaign Strategies: The Selling of the Parties (1987) (2)
Policy, Office or Votes? How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Decisions Edited by Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 319p. $59.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. (2002) (2)
African aid links and UN voting: A research note (1985) (2)
Agent-Based Models of Social Life (2020) (2)
On introducing stv and interpreting the results: The case of Northern Ireland, 1973-1975 (1976) (2)
the objectives and design of european doctoral programmes in political science (2005) (2)
"Party-defined" spaces revisited (2006) (2)
Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-79640-8 — Agent-Based Models of Polarization and Ethnocentrism (1)
COALITIONS IN BRITAIN (1977) (1)
Automated content analysis of political texts using wordscores (2006) (1)
Coalition Bargaining, Interest Representation and Government Responsiveness (1983) (1)
Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830. Volume II: Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands, by Victor Lieberman. (2016) (1)
A tournament of party action-selection rules (2006) (1)
Chin Up; Chest Out; Don't Panic (2013) (1)
Parliaments and government formation: unpacking investiture rules (2016) (1)
John Gerring and Wouter Veenendaal, Population and Politics: The Impact of Scale (2021) (1)
Public opinion feedback between elections, and stability of single-party majority governments (2015) (1)
The theory and practice of coalition in Western Europe (1986) (1)
Governing Together: The Extent and Limits of Joint Decision-Making in Western European Cabinets. Edited by Jean Blondel and Ferdinand Muller-Rommel. London: Macmillan, 1993. 338p. $59.95. (1995) (1)
David Spiegelhalter: The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data (2021) (1)
Making and Breaking Governments: Government formation, intraparty politics, and administrative reform (1996) (1)
12 Conclusion (2011) (1)
Mapping Policy Preferences with Uncertainty: Measuring and Correcting Error in Comparative Manifesto Project Estimates (Preliminary) (2007) (1)
The irish party system approaching the millennium (2018) (1)
Teoria, instituutiot ja hallituksenmuodostus Länsi-Euroopassa [Theory, institutions and government formation in western Europe] (1991) (1)
Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868, by Robert I. Hellyer.Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868, by Robert I. Hellyer. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 326. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. xvi, 281 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). (2011) (0)
Cabinet ministers and government formation: a research agenda (1994) (0)
Exploring the model: A comparative perspective (1996) (0)
Textbook without Tears (1996) (0)
Helen Thompson, Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century (2022) (0)
3. A Baseline ABM of Party Competition (2011) (0)
Making and Breaking Governments: Two cases: Germany, 1987; Ireland, 1992–1993 (1996) (0)
Book reviews : McCay, B. and Acheson, J. editors, 1987: The question of the commons. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. xvi + 440 pp. US$35.00 cloth (1989) (0)
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Department of Politics G53.1500 COMPARATIVE POLITICS Spring 2007 (2006) (0)
Book Review: Understanding Political Change: The British Voter 1964–67 (1991) (0)
Sociology (1995) (0)
Alexander A. Schuessler, A Logic of Expressive Choice (2022) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
2. Spatial Dynamics of Political Competition (2011) (0)
Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603– 1912 by Atsuko Hirai (review) (2018) (0)
Making and Breaking Governments: Theory, institutions, and government formation (1996) (0)
Making and Breaking Governments: The government formation process (1996) (0)
Change in Political Party Systems: Evidence of Shifting Political Spaces (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (1995) (0)
10. Party Leaders with Policy Preferences (2011) (0)
6. Endogenous Parties, Interaction of Different Decision Rules (2011) (0)
SURVEYS OF POLITICS OR SURVEYS AS POLITICS (1984) (0)
Asia Gordon D. Laman. Pioneers to Partners: The Reformed Church in America and Christian Mission with the Japanese . Minneapolis: Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, 2012. 682 pp., 73 illustrations. ISBN: 9780802869654 (hbk). $60.00. (2013) (0)
Party system dynamics in Japan and Italy: Introduction (2001) (0)
A Whole New World (Order) (2018) (0)
Johnston, R. J., "Political, Electoral and Spatial Systems" (Book Review) (1980) (0)
7. New Decision Rules, New Rule Features (2011) (0)
Helen Thompson, Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century (2022) (0)
Back Matter (1995) (0)
Book Review Forum Marking the 60th Anniversary of Bernard Crick’s In Defence of Politics (1962) (2022) (0)
4. Systematically Interrogating Agent-Based Models (2011) (0)
11. Using Theoretical Models to Analyze Real Party Systems (2011) (0)
Bicameralism. By Tsebelis George and Money Jeannette. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 250p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. (1999) (0)
INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDES AND PARTY POLITICS (1983) (0)
1. Modeling Multiparty Competition (2011) (0)
Neither Here nor There (2016) (0)
Playing Politics (German Translation) (1986) (0)
Analyzing the Politics of Legislative Debate (2021) (0)
9. Nonpolicy Factors in Party Competition (2011) (0)
Europe (1994) (0)
ANOTHER LOOKAT POLITICAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN (1979) (0)
Correction to: Alexander A. Schuessler, A Logic of Expressive Choice (2022) (0)
Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science. By Joshua M. Epstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 249p. $49.50. (2015) (0)
8. The Evolutionary Dynamics of Decision Rule Selection (2011) (0)
5. Benchmarking the Baseline Model (2011) (0)
Making the model more realistic (1996) (0)
Paul Bew ; Peter Gibson ; Henry Patterson : The State in Northern Ireland 1921-1972 (1980) (0)
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity, by Robert Louis WilkenThe First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity, by Robert Louis Wilken. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2012. x, 388 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). (2013) (0)
The Travelers’ World: Europe to the Pacific, by Harry LiebersohnThe Travelers’ World: Europe to the Pacific, by Harry Liebersohn. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. xx, 380 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). (2007) (0)
Theoretical implications, data, and operationalization (1996) (0)
A multivariate investigation of portfolio allocation (1996) (0)
Subgame-Perfect Portfolio Allocations in Parliamentary Government Formation (1996) (0)
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity by Douglas Murray (2021) (0)
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Department of Politics Fall 2007 G53.3500: SEMINAR IN C0MPARATIVE POLITICS ANALYZING POLITICAL COMPETITION (2005) (0)
The social context of government formation (1996) (0)
The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905, by T. G. Otte.The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905, by T. G. Otte. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 352 pp. $150.00 Cdn (cloth). (2009) (0)
Alexander A. Schuessler, A Logic of Expressive Choice (2022) (0)
The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies (2023) (0)
The rise of the nation state (2004) (0)
Modeling Multiparty Competition (2011) (0)
Books and Boats: Sino-Japanese Relations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . By Ōba Osamu. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Portland, Me.: MerwinAsia, 2012. xi, 324 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Northern Ireland party platforms 1921-73 (1987) (0)
Introduction (1998) (0)
COALITION TERMINATION A D THE STRATEGIC TIMING OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (1995) (0)
Clearing the Ground (1995) (0)
Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan . By Elizabeth Oyler. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003. xi, 218 pp. $51.00 (cloth). (2009) (0)
Book review: Bonnie M. Meguid (2008) (2010) (0)
Political science in Ireland in the early 21st century (2016) (0)
Margaret’s House Daycare Presentation (2015) (0)

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