Although attention to populism is ever-increasing, the concept remains contested. This
paper provides a comprehensive overview of populism research and identifies tendencies to …

We illustrate the design and use of open-ended survey questions to elicit people's first-order
concerns on policies. Closed-ended questions are the backbone of surveys but may prime …

There is a growing interest in quantitative analysis of large corpora among the international
relations (IR) scholars, but many of them find it difficult to perform analysis consistently with …

Topic models have been widely used by researchers across disciplines to automatically
analyze large textual data. However, they often fail to automate content analysis, because …

Many countries now operate state-funded international broadcasters, communicating
directly with foreign publics to promote a variety of foreign policy goals. RT (formerly known …

Recent years have seen an increasing amount of self-reflective discussion among media
and communication scholars, about the hegemonic structures and inclusive participation …

Research has shown how unpremeditated events can influence media attention and media
framing. But how do staged political events influence patterns of news coverage across …

Few concepts figure more prominently in the study of international politics than threat. Yet
scholars do not agree on how to identify and measure threats or systematically incorporate …

We analyse Russian state media's framing of the Euromaidan protests using a novel
Russian-language electronic content-analysis dictionary and method that we have …

Abstract Despite the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) emphasis on whole process
people's democracy and democracy with Chinese characteristics, the type of democracy …