Disentangling peripheral parties’ issue packages in subnational elections

Alonso, Sonia; Cabeza, Laura; Gómez, Braulio

doi:10.1057/cep.2015.15

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“…Finally, the dataset of 5,000 tweets annotated with the CPM coding schema. 5 has been published as well as the source code 6 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This methodology has been used worldwide for manifestos annotation by several research groups to later apply content analysis techniques in order to conduct political analyses such as: which are the policy preferences of a party regarding a specific topic or which topics are specially emphasised by the political party in the manifesto. For instance, Alonso et al [6] analysed how some parties behave differently depending on the elections' context or Benoit [7] analysed how Irish political parties have varied their policy stances on European integration over the years.…”

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Improving Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter With Context Analysis

Bilbao-Jayo

Almeida

2021

IEEE Access

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In this study, we propose a new approach to perform political discourse analysis in social media platforms based on a widely used political categorisation schema in the field of political science, namely, the Comparative Manifestos Project's category schema. This categorisation schema has been traditionally used to perform content analysis in political manifestos, giving a code that indicates the domain or category of each of the phrases in the manifestos. Therefore, in this work we propose the application of this political discourse analysis technique in Twitter, using as training data of 100 publicly available annotated political manifestos in English with around 85,000 annotated sentences. Furthermore, we also analyse the improvement that using 5,000 annotated tweets could provide to the performance of the political discourse classifier already trained with political manifestos. Finally, we have analysed the 2016 United States presidential elections on Twitter using the proposed approach. As our main finding, we have been able to conclude that both datasets (political manifestos and annotated tweets) can be combined in order to achieve better results, achieving improvements in the F-Measure of more than 15 points. Moreover, we have also analysed if contextual information such as the previous tweet or the political affiliation of the transmitter could improve classifier's performance as it has already been proven for manifestos classification, introducing a novel method for political parties representation and finding that adding the previous tweet or the political leaning as contextual data does improve its performance.

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“…Finally, the dataset of 5,000 tweets annotated with the CPM coding schema. 5 has been published as well as the source code 6 .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter With Context Analysis

Bilbao-Jayo

Almeida

2021

IEEE Access

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“…This variation is mainly due to the presence and strength of regionalist parties. Regionalist parties are those whose political program is the defense of a distinctive territory within the state; they are all rooted in the center-periphery cleavage and organize exclusively in their peripheral territory (Alonso et al, 2017;Vampa and Scantamburlo, 2020). Since the democratic transition, regions with strong regionalist parties in Spain are characterized by a high degree of dual voting, whereby sectors of the electorate opt for a regionalist party in regional elections but switch to a state-wide party in national elections (Riba, 2000;Pallarés and Keating, 2003).…”

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Dual voting and second-order effects in the quasi-simultaneous 2019 Spanish regional and national elections

Cabeza¹,

Scantamburlo²

2021

Rev. Esp. Cienc. Polít.

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“…They constitute the regionalist party family since they are all rooted in the centre-periphery cleavage, defined 'as the conflict over the political control over a (peripheral) territory' (Alonso 2012: 25). A second feature that distinguishes them from regional branches of state-wide parties is the exclusive organisation in their peripheral territory (Alonso et al 2017). It has been widely demonstrated, in response to the niche party thesis (Meguid 2008), that many regionalist parties do not limit their appeal to centre-periphery issues but instead complement their territorial self-government goals with the position and emphasis on a different set of economic and other issues (Alonso 2012; Gross and Debus 2017; Massetti and Schakel 2015).…”

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Democratic regeneration in European peripheral regions: new politics for the territory?

Scantamburlo¹,

Alonso²,

Gómez³

2020

Democratic Representation in Multi-Level Systems

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Scholarly research on the emergence of a new politics agenda of democratic regeneration, driven by the electoral growth of challenger parties, has focused the analysis primarily at the national and supranational levels, leaving the subnational level underexplored. This article contributes to filling this gap through a comparative analysis of party competition in peripheral regions of Italy, Spain and Great Britain during the European Great Recession. Using Regional Manifestos Project data, it shows that the regionalisation of the state and the presence of a centre-periphery cleavage represent no obstacle when it comes to responding to a change of preferences among the electorate. The transformation of political spaces in the aftermath of the Great Recession is happening as much at the regional as at the national level. At the same time, the political relevance of challenger parties and the diversity of regional responses contradict the alleged secondary nature of regional dynamics.

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Disentangling peripheral parties’ issue packages in subnational elections

Cited by 16 publications

References 22 publications

Improving Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter With Context Analysis

Improving Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter With Context Analysis

Dual voting and second-order effects in the quasi-simultaneous 2019 Spanish regional and national elections

Democratic regeneration in European peripheral regions: new politics for the territory?

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