Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021

• Published in: European journal of political research Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 750 - 773
• Main Author: POPA, MIRCEA
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2024
• Subjects: Activism; Cabinet; Data; Discourse; Economic policy; Expenditures; industrial policy; Innovations; Learning; political economy; Public services; text‐as‐data; United Kingdom > UK

The evolution of economic policy in Western countries in the post‐1980 era is subject to extensive academic debate, but statistical modelling of its many qualitative aspects can be challenging. I use two sources of textual data from the United Kingdom – policy documents written by executive departme...