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.