corporaexplorer: An R package for dynamic exploration of text collections

Political scientists rely on complex software to conduct research, and much of the software they use is written and distributed for free by other researchers. This article contends that creating and maintaining these public goods is costly for individual software developers but that it is not adequately incentivized by the academic community. We demonstrate that statistical software is used widely but rarely cited in political science, and we highlight a partial solution to this problem: software bibliographies. To facilitate their creation, we introduce softbib, an R package that scans analysis scripts, detects the software used in those scripts, and automatically creates bibliographies. We hope that recognizing the contribution of software developers to science will encourage more scholars to create public goods, which could yield important downstream benefits.

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“… 6. There are many software packages designed for qualitative scholars, such as QCA (Thiem and Dusa 2013) and corporaexplorer (Gjerde 2019). …”

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Software Citations in Political Science

Arel‐Bundock

McCrain

2023

APSC

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Reimagining NATO after Crimea: Defender of the rule-based order and truth?

Beaumont,

Wilhelmsen,

Gjerde

2024

Contemporary Security Policy

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Spiraling toward a New Cold War in the North? The Effect of Mutual and Multifaceted Securitization

Wilhelmsen

2020

Journal of Global Security Studies

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Building on a discourse-theoretical reading of securitization theory, this article theorizes and examines how two political entities can become locked in a negative spiral of identification that may lead to a violent confrontation. Through mutual and multifaceted securitization, each party increasingly construes the other as a threat to itself. When this representation spreads beyond the military domain to other dimensions (trade, culture, diplomacy), the other party is projected as “different” and “dangerous” at every encounter: positive mutual recognition is gradually blocked out. Military means then become the logical, legitimate way of relating: contact and collaboration in other issue-areas are precluded. Drawing on official statements 2014–2018, this article investigates how Norwegian–Russian relations shifted from being a collaborative partnership to one of enmity in the High North. The emerging and mutual pattern of representing the other as a threat across issue-areas since 2014 has become an “autonomous” driver of conflict—regardless of whether either party might originally have had offensive designs on the other.

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corporaexplorer: An R package for dynamic exploration of text collections

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Software Citations in Political Science

Software Citations in Political Science

Reimagining NATO after Crimea: Defender of the rule-based order and truth?

Spiraling toward a New Cold War in the North? The Effect of Mutual and Multifaceted Securitization

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