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Lehrforschungsprojekt
WiSe 19/20: Research Placement: Conflicts in the public sphere - Approaches to quantitative content analysis of media texts
Swen Hutter
Comments
The research placement focuses on different approaches to quantitative content analysis and their use in understanding the transformation of protest and electoral politics in Europe. The research placements makes a methodological and a substantive contribution. From a methodological perspective, the students will learn to read, understand and interpret the results of scientific research utilizing protest event, core sentence, and contentious episode analysis. The students will also learn to apply at least one of these approaches in their own research. From a substantive perspective, the course focuses on the transformation of political conflict in contemporary European societies. More concretely, the literature we will read examines changing cleavages in the electoral and protest arenas, cross-arena mobilization by political parties in protest and movements in electoral politics, as well as differences between old and new democracies. The students can choose their topics of interest related to these major transformations, but need to apply one of the three types of quantitative content analysis listed above. The participants need to have good knowledge of at least one statistical program (preferably Stata). close
Suggested reading
Basic Readings
- Hutter, Swen. 2014.“Protest Event Analysis and its Offspring.” In: Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research, edited by Donatella della Porta, pp. 335–67. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Hutter, Swen and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.) (2019). European Party Politics in Times of Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2019-10-14 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-10-21 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-10-28 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-11-04 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-11-11 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-11-18 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-11-25 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-12-02 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-12-09 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2019-12-16 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-01-06 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-01-13 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-01-20 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-01-27 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-02-03 14:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-02-10 14:00 - 18:00