“…Projects have adapted and finetuned the MERCI codebook (Berkhout & Sudulich, 2011;Castelli Gattinara, Cinalli, Giugni, & Morales 2015;Hoksbergen & Tillie 2012), have combined newspaper data with interviews, surveys, focus groups, existing statistics and policy documents (Cinalli & Giugni, 2013;Morales & Giugni 2011;Statham & Tillie, 2016;Van Heelsum & Koomen, 2016), redefined claims and actors to account for cross-national differences (Berkhout, 2015) and applied other techniques, such as network analysis, on the same data (Cinalli & O'Flynn, 2014). While these improvements have been complementary two limitations remain.…”