{"id":610,"date":"2017-04-06T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforpolicies.org.uk\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2023-06-01T11:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T11:21:45","slug":"our-methodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforpolicies.org.uk\/blog\/our-methodology\/","title":{"rendered":"Our methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page documents our approach to extracting and summarising the policies from the 2017 political manifestos for inclusion in the Vote for Policies <a title=\"Vote for Policies 2017 general election survey\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforpolicies.org.uk\">2017 UK general election survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Our method was discussed with and consulted on by <a title=\"Dr Ben Worthy at Birkbeck University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/politics\/our-staff\/academic\/ben-worthy\">Ben Worthy<\/a> at <a title=\"Birkbeck University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/\">Birkbeck College<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Objectives<\/h1>\n<p>For the 2017 survey,\u00a0our objectives were based on improvements we wanted to make after feedback from our 2015 survey. These were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide shorter, more succinct policy summaries that are easy for all to read (8-12 words ideally).<\/li>\n<li>Focus on the <i>measurable actions<\/i> that are being promised.<\/li>\n<li>Make it easy for users to easily compare policies for the same issue across parties.<\/li>\n<li>Remove any potential for any unintentional bias in our selection process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Method<\/h1>\n<p>For each manifesto:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Reading through a manifesto, copy all policies and paste into a text document, under the relevant Issues\u00a0headings (for some policies this may be the same or different to how the party categorises them). Maintain the relative order \/ priority in which they appear in the manifesto. A policy statement can only appear under one issue, not multiple issues.<\/li>\n<li>As policies are copied and pasted, take time to shorten each policy point by focussing on the action points (not the reported outcome) and removing extraneous words that don\u2019t affect the meaning (e.g. \u201cThis party will commit to\u2026\u201d). Summarising can be quite \u2018rough\u2019 at this stage as we will revisit each policy several times during this process. For more information on this please see <a title=\"How to edit policies\" href=\"#edit-policies\">How to\u00a0edit policies<\/a> below.<\/li>\n<li>Once all policies have been extracted for the manifesto, paste these into the <em>Working Document<\/em> (word doc) under the relevant core headings, and add bullet numbers (for ease of counting policy numbers later). Further refine and shorten text as above.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat steps 2-4 for all manifestos.<\/li>\n<li>Create the <em>First Draft<\/em> document.<br \/>\nWe now have all policies from all parties in the working document. Take one Issue, and paste the policies from each party into the <em>First Draft<\/em> so they can be seen side by side. For example, the Crime policies from Conservatives are positioned next to the Crime policies for Greens, then for Labour, Lib Dems and so on.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat step 6 for all issues. This completes the <em>First Draft<\/em> as an issue-by-issue view of all of the policies in the Working Document.<\/li>\n<li>Duplicate the <em>First Draft<\/em>, renaming it the <em>Second Draft<\/em>. This is where most of the sorting and reorganisation happens. The <em>First Draft<\/em> is kept as a back-up.<\/li>\n<li>For the first Issue, we now look at the individual policies with the goal of reducing the number from each party down to a maximum of six or eight (see <a href=\"#issues\">Issues<\/a> section below). For each issue\u00a0we look for the common or \u2018core\u2019 policies as well as priority order from the parties, and use this to refine the sub-issues that are to be included (and any that aren\u2019t). We continue this until a sufficient number of policies remain for each parties, and the Issues\u00a0list is updated to reflect those shortlisted.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat step 9 for each issue. We now have a set of policies to test and validate.<\/li>\n<li>Testing and validation.<br \/>\nSeveral other organisations and the media publish their own manifesto policy summaries (<a title=\"The Guardian - Who Should I Vote For?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/ng-interactive\/2017\/may\/19\/who-should-i-vote-for-the-uk-election-manifestos-compared\">like these<\/a>). These provide a useful means of double-checking both the meaning \/ wording and the relative priority of each policy. If we decide to make any changes, the <a href=\"#issues\">Issues<\/a>\u00a0list is updated to reflect this.<\/li>\n<li>To complete the refining process, a final pass is made to remove further extraneous wording where possible, so as to reduce the word count as much as possible. We now have our final set of policies from each party, for each issue.<\/li>\n<li>Approval from the parties.<br \/>\nCreate a separate document for each party, containing all of their policy summaries. Send to the direct contact for the party, and call to confirm receipt. We only send each party the policies we have summarised from their manifesto, we do not polices from other parties.<\/li>\n<li>Changes requested by a political\u00a0party can be accepted or rejected, but should be documented in both cases and remain available for audit. You can read more about how we handle <a href=\"#parties\">feedback from the political parties<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Software testing. The policies are uploaded to a test version of the Vote for Policies (this is a complete, fully functional copy of the main site). We run test scripts to verify the policies are aligned with the correct issues\u00a0and parties. We also perform manual tests \u2018visually\u2019 before final sign-off from the content owner. The policies are then made live.<a name=\"edit-policies\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h1>How to edit policies<\/h1>\n<p>It\u2019s important to make the policies as succinct as possible to reduce the amount of reading required, but without introducing any change to the meaning. Here are the principles we worked to, and some examples.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Use the root form of verb.<\/strong><br \/>\nFor consistency and ease of reading, all policies are written in the root form of the verb, not the present participle of future tense (e.g. <i>Invest<\/i>, rather than <i>Investing<\/i>, or <i>We will invest<\/i>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Remove extraneous \u2018supporting verbs\u2019<\/strong> (e.g. <i>Continue to invest<\/i> becomes <i>Invest<\/i>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shorten the wording without changing the meaning.<\/strong><br \/>\nSometime the same meaning can be conveyed in fewer words, so we always attempt to do this in order to reduce the amount of reading for the user and make the survey quicker to do. For example:<br \/>\n<i>Recover the cost of medical treatment from people not resident in the UK <\/i><br \/>\ncan be reworded to:<br \/>\n<i>Recover the cost of medical treatment from non-UK residents. <\/i>As long as we maintain the points that this applies to those who <b><i>do not reside<\/i><\/b><i> in the <\/i><b><i>UK<\/i><\/b>, the shorter wording is acceptable as the meaning remains unchanged.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus on the action, not the justification.<\/strong><br \/>\nOften, the justification for a policy or the reported impact it will have &#8211; is particularly verbose. We have chosen not to include this aspect purely for reasons of brevity, and also to help users focus on the policy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Understand the policy meaning before making changes.<br \/>\n<\/strong>This isn\u2019t purely about language &#8211; sometime technical knowledge about specific policy areas is required when attempting to reduce the word count. For example:<br \/>\n<i>Comply fully with the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and honour our obligations to bona fide asylum seekers.<\/i><br \/>\nBecause the second part (<i>and honour our obligations\u2026<\/i>) is essentially an explanation of the first part, we can remove this without remove without fear of being too hard\u2026<br \/>\nWe also can provide explanations of some terms via a lexicon feature on the site, so don\u2019t need to add explanations in the policy statements.<a name=\"parties\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h1>Feedback from political parties<\/h1>\n<p>We had great engagement from all of the political parties. All of them fed back and most had changes. Change requests are only\u00a0be actioned if the proposed new wording or additional policy point satisfies the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is it in the manifesto? It must be included in the same manifesto &#8211; with similar wording and explanation.<\/li>\n<li>Is it a policy? It must meet our requirement of being &#8216;actionable&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Does it fit within our categorisation. It must be included in the relevant section, and isn\u2019t one of the sub-issues we <i>aren\u2019t<\/i> including in that issue.<a name=\"issues\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If these criteria are satisfied, the change is made and a record of the change is kept for auditing and transparency purposes.<\/p>\n<h1>Issues\u00a0\/ sub-issues<\/h1>\n<p>Below are the Issues we are covering in the 2017 survey, along with the core issues that we want to compare policies for. We developed our\u00a0list of main issues and sub-issues based on a combination of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what we have covered before<\/li>\n<li>what the parties are\u00a0leading with in their 2017 manifesto<\/li>\n<li>cross-checking the above\u00a0with what the media is focussing on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The final list of issues\u00a0and sub-issues\u00a0is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Crime (6 policies):<br \/>\nPolicing, terrorism and extremism, prisons, victim protection.<\/li>\n<li>Democracy (8 policies):<br \/>\nVoting system, voting age, Scotland independence\u00a0referendum, House of Lords, devolvement.<\/li>\n<li>Economy (8 policies):<br \/>\nDeficit strategy, Industrial strategies, R&amp;D, Infrastructure investment, connectivity, airport expansion, banking and finance sector-specific.<br \/>\n<em>Do\u00a0not include: Energy tariffs.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Education (8 policies):<br \/>\nStrategy \/ approach \/ benefits, funding, nursery, school systems, further education, university fees.<br \/>\n<em>Do\u00a0not include: Teacher pay \/ benefits.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Environment (8 policies):<br \/>\nStrategy \/ carbon reduction, renewables, clean air, fossil fuels, fracking \/ shale, marine.<br \/>\n<em>Do\u00a0not include: Flood defences, bees, animal welfare.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Equalities \/ Rights (8 policies):<br \/>\nHuman rights, privacy, discrimination (pay, gender, race, disability, mental health, LGBT).<\/li>\n<li>Europe \/ Brexit (8 policies):<br \/>\nBrexit deal \/ negotiation points, UK &amp; EU residents&#8217; rights, single market \/ customs union, Erasmus programme, border with Ireland.<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Policy \/ Defence (6 policies):<br \/>\nStrategic \/ ideological position, Trident, refugee crises, budget for international development \/ aid.<br \/>\n<em>Will not include:<\/em>\u00a0<i>Veterans.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Health \/ NHS (8 policies max):<br \/>\nFunding, staff, service standards \/ approach (e.g. primary care), GPs, mental health.<\/li>\n<li>Housing (6 policies):<br \/>\nHouse building targets, approach, social housing, buyers, renters, homelessness.<\/li>\n<li>Immigration (6 policies):<br \/>\nNet migration target (plus how it&#8217;s counted), approach \/ integration, asylum.<\/li>\n<li>Jobs \/ Work (6 policies):<br \/>\nEmployment targets, quality of jobs, wages (living wage, minimum wage. pay ratios), workers&#8217; rights.<\/li>\n<li>Retirement (6 policies):<br \/>\nPensions, social care, pensioner benefits.<br \/>\n<em>Do not include: Veterans<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tax &amp; Benefits (8 policies):<br \/>\nTax: Personal allowance, income tax rates, Corporation tax, specific taxes (bedroom tax, then VAT, council tax if maximum not reached).<br \/>\n<em>Do\u00a0not include:<\/em> <em>Tax avoidance, HMRC staffing.<br \/>\n<\/em>Benefits 4: Strategic \/ funding, Universal Credit, housing benefit, nursery benefits.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Being consistent with\u00a0issues<\/h3>\n<p>In order to provide a meaningful comparison across parties, it\u2019s important to be consistent with the issues we include for each party.<\/p>\n<p>For example, although policies for veterans are something we could have included in Retirement, we chose to include pensions, social care, and pensioner benefits as our priorities. Therefore, even if a party\u00a0doesn&#8217;t have the maximum of 6 policies for the issues we are covering, (not the maximum of 8), we won&#8217;t\u00a0add their policy for Veterans to make it up to six as this could have implied they are the only party to have a policy for\u00a0veterans in their manifesto. The same is also true of \u2018animal cruelty\u2019 in the Environment issue, and also \u2018tax avoidance\u2019 in the Tax &amp; Benefits issue.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Erasmus\u2019 (EU student exchange) programme, while being strongly linked to Education, was referenced in the\u00a02017 manifestos in the context of EU \/ Brexit negotiations. Therefore we only placed it in the Europe \/ Brexit issue\u00a0for all parties that had a policy for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page documents our approach to extracting and summarising the policies from the 2017 political manifestos for inclusion in the Vote for Policies 2017 UK general election survey. 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