“…I can therefore only assume that Chaney has also contributed to this manuscript, nonetheless I feel it would have been appropriate to acknowledge these other studies in this paper." The author(s) responded that "The present study is part of a wider policy literature examining manifesto discourse (Gould, 2000;Aman, 2009;Edwards, 2012) and comes from a programme of work that has examined the formative origins of different aspects of public policy in election programmes (Chaney, 2013a(Chaney, , 2013b(Chaney, , 2014". Personally, I would have liked to see a more substantial acknowledgement, in particular how these papers have, for instance, informed the methodology and analysis of this study.…”