Government websites as data: a methodological pipeline with application to the websites of municipalities in the United States

Government websites as data: a methodological pipeline with application to the websites of municipalities in the United States
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政府网站作为数据:适用于美国市政当局网站的方法管道

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10.1080/19331681.2021.1999880
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Desmarais, Bruce
Desmarais, Bruce
中科院分区:
法学4区
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作者:
Neumann, Markus;Linder, Fridolin;Desmarais, Bruce

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政府网站的内容是有关政策优先事项、程序和服务的重要信息来源。现有的政府网站研究一直依赖于网站内容收集和处理的人工方法,这对网站数据收集的规模造成了成本限制。在本研究报告中,我们建议从大量政府网站样本中自动收集网站内容,可以减轻人工收集的成本,并通过大规模比较分析做出贡献。我们还提供软件来简化这种数据收集方法的使用。在一个说明性的应用程序中,我们收集了来自美国200多个市政府网站的文本内容,并研究了网站内容如何与市长的党派关系。使用统计主题建模,我们发现,市长的党派预测的城市网站的内容,与民主党人和共和党人的平台的差异一致的差异。该应用程序说明了通过我们的方法管道提取的网站内容数据的实用性。
The content of a government’s website is an important source of information about policy priorities, procedures, and services. Existing research on government websites has relied on manual methods of website content collection and processing, which imposes cost limitations on the scale of website data collection. In this research note, we propose that the automated collection of website content from large samples of government websites can offer relief from the costs of manual collection, and enable contributions through large-scale comparative analyses. We also provide software to ease the use of this data collection method. In an illustrative application, we collect textual content from the websites of over two hundred municipal governments in the United States, and study how website content is associated with mayoral partisanship. Using statistical topic modeling, we find that the partisanship of the mayor predicts differences in the contents of city websites that align with differences in the platforms of Democrats and Republicans. The application illustrates the utility of website content data extracted via our methodological pipeline.
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