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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Kenneth Benoit is affiliated with Singapore Management University in Singapore and conducts research primarily in diverse areas spanning artificial intelligence, political science, and management. Their work includes topics related to electoral systems, political participation, corporate strategies, gender politics, ethics of AI, explainable artificial intelligence, big data, and natural language processing techniques.

They have published research in several venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PS Political Science & Politics
  • Party Politics
  • LSE Public Policy Review
  • The American Statistician

Notable recent publications by Kenneth Benoit include:

  • AI and Data Science for Public Policy, 2024, published in LSE Public Policy Review
  • Textual Data Science with R, 2021, published in The American Statistician

Other related research works they are connected with, authored by collaborators or in shared venues, include:

  • American Political Science Review, 2020, published in PS Political Science & Politics
  • Scaling hand-coded political texts to learn more about left-right policy content, 2021, Party Politics
  • Docma-TU/tosca: tosca 0.2-0, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent coauthors with whom Kenneth Benoit has collaborated include:

  • Julia Silge
  • Sean Kross
  • Jim Hester
  • James Keirstead
  • Dave Childers

Their research spans numerous subfields such as artificial intelligence, political science and international relations, strategy and management, gender studies, and safety research. The main topics explored involve electoral systems and political participation, political influence and corporate strategies, gender politics and representation, ethics and social impacts of AI, explainable artificial intelligence, big data and business intelligence, and natural language processing techniques.

Best Publications

  • Party Policy in Modern Democracies

    Kenneth Benoit;Michael Laver

  • Extracting policy positions from political texts using words as data

    Michael Laver;Kenneth Benoit;John Garry

  • quanteda: An R package for the quantitative analysis of textual data

    Kenneth Benoit;Kohei Watanabe;Haiyan Wang;Paul Nulty

  • Scaling policy preferences from coded political texts

    Will Lowe;Kenneth Benoit;Slava Mikhaylov;Michael Laver

  • Models of electoral system change

    Kenneth Benoit

  • Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions

    Kenneth Benoit;Michael Laver;Slava Mikhaylov

  • Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis

    Kenneth Benoit;Michael Laver

  • Democracies Really Are More Pacific (in General): Reexamining Regime Type and War Involvement

    Kenneth Benoit

  • Crowd-sourced Text Analysis: Reproducible and Agile Production of Political Data

    Kenneth Benoit;Drew Conway;Benjamin E. Lauderdale;Michael Laver

  • Electoral Laws as Political Consequences: Explaining the Origins and Change of Electoral Institutions

    Kenneth Benoit

  • Text Analysis in R

    Kasper Welbers;Wouter Van Atteveldt;Kenneth Benoit

  • Coder Reliability and Misclassification in the Human Coding of Party Manifestos

    Slava Mikhaylov;Michael Laver;Kenneth R. Benoit

  • PARTY GROUPS AND POLICY POSITIONS IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

    Gail McElroy;Kenneth Richard Benoit

  • Intra-party politics and coalition governments

    Daniela Giannetti;Kenneth Benoit

  • Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

    Paul Nulty;Yannis Theocharis;Sebastian Adrian Popa;Olivier Parnet

  • Presidents, Parties, and Policy Competition

    Nina Wiesehomeier;Kenneth Benoit

  • Party policy and group affiliation in the European Parliament

    Gail McElroy;Kenneth R Benoit

  • The dimensionality of political space: Epistemological and methodological considerations:

    Kenneth Benoit;Michael Laver

  • The Evolution of Party Systems between Elections

    Michael Laver;Kenneth Benoit

  • Which electoral formula is the most proportional?: a new look with new evidence

    Kenneth Benoit

  • Policy positioning in the European Parliament

    Gail McElroy;Kenneth Benoit

  • District magnitude, electoral formula, and the number of parties

    Kenneth Benoit

  • Institutional choice in new democracies: bargaining over Hungary's 1989 electoral law

    Kenneth Benoit;John W. Schiemann

  • The endogeneity problem in electoral studies: a critical re-examination of Duverger's mechanical effect☆

    Kenneth Benoit

  • American Political Science Review: Editors’ Report July 1, 2018–February 29, 2020

    Thomas König;Kenneth Benoit;Thomas Bräuninger;Sabine Carey

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Laver
Michael Laver New York University
Michael Marsh
Michael Marsh Trinity College Dublin
Thomas Bräuninger
Thomas Bräuninger University of Mannheim
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University
Arthur Spirling
Arthur Spirling Princeton University
Marc Debus
Marc Debus University of Mannheim
Thomas König
Thomas König University of Mannheim
Yannis Theocharis
Yannis Theocharis Technical University of Munich

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