Moving beyond the dominant bag-of-words approach to sentiment analysis we introduce an
alternative procedure based on distributed word embeddings. The strength of word …

We put forward a new approach to studying issue definition within the context of policy
diffusion. Most studies of policy diffusion—which is the process by which policymaking in …

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the timely question of the politicization of
European integration. It shows how this issue's complex linkages with traditional political …

Policy debates between political actors can facilitate, strain, or change the direction of future
policy-making. However, existing measurement approaches do not tap the full potential of …

This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative
perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and implementation of a systematic …

We present a new method to analyze party manifestos to benefit the placement of political
parties per se and to advance the study of elections. Our method improves on existing …

Most common methods for automatic text analysis in communication science ignore
syntactic information, focusing on the occurrence and co-occurrence of individual words …

Social movements are made up of organized groups and individuals working together to
accomplish shared objectives. Under what circumstances do active groups build and break …

For now more than four decades, quantitative protest event analysis (PEA) has routinely
contributed to the testing and refinement of theories on political processes from different …

Die Inhaltsanalyse steht als zentrale Erhebungsmethode der Kommunikationswissenschaft
angesichts der voranschreitenden technologischen Entwicklungen vor der großen …