Fig. 10: Latent Semantic Scaling (LSS) models (Watanabe, 2021) using top 15 in-ideological (left side) and top 15 out-ideological associations as seedwords. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 10: Latent Semantic Scaling (LSS) models (Watanabe, 2021) using top 15 in-ideological (left side) and top 15 out-ideological associations as seedwords.

From: Mapping left-right associations: a framework using open-ended survey responses and political positions

Fig. 10

The figure shows the respective seedwords and their LSS polarity scores (x axis) and their logarithmic frequency in the speech corpus (y axis) per word association. GLES candidate surveys 2013, 2017, and 2021 and Bundestag speeches from the 19th legislative period, 2017-2021 (Richter et al. 2023).

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