370 research outputs found
Outsiders looking in and insiders looking out: A comparative study of newspaper coverage of Italian-German relationships in the 2013 elections
No full textWe conceptualise transnational political communication as an emerging phenomenon in globally connected polities, whereby public discourse in a country increasingly focuses on politics, policies, and political actors in other countries. There are two dimensions to transnationalisation: ‘outside-in’, when political communication focuses on the domestic politics of foreign countries, and ‘inside-out’, when foreign countries play a role in a country’s domestic public discourse. We apply this conceptual distinction to a study of newspaper coverage of the 2013 German and Italian elections in both countries. Based on a content analysis of 428 articles across six newspapers, we find that Germany received more, and more positive, coverage in the Italian press than Italy did in the German press. While the German press tended to be neutral and to cover Italy only as part of Italy’s own electoral politics, the Italian press intensely covered Germany during both the German and Italian elections. Articles in the inside-out mode of transnationalisation were more likely to discuss the interdependencies between the two countries, but those articles could only be found in the less powerful Italy, whereas they were nearly absent in the more powerful Germany
Online Networks of the Italian and German Extreme Right
No full textThis article applies instruments of social network analysis to a study of communication networks within the Italian and German extremist right. Web links between organizational websites are used as a proxy. Indeed, extremist groups increasingly use and abuse the Internet for their propaganda and their recruitment, and also for their internal communication. The analysis includes both political parties and non-party organizations, even violent groups. In a macro-, micro-, and meso-analysis, the various specificities of the two national political sectors are demonstrated and linked to the offline reality. The Italian network appears to be very fragmented, highly diversified, and difficult to be coordinated (‘policephalous network’), whereas the German network is denser and much more concentrated on a few central actors (‘star structure’). These differences are mainly due to political opportunity structures in the two countries. Additionally, whereas the Italian network structure allows for the construction of a typology of sub-groups of organizations, the German communicative structure seems to be more erratic and less coordinated. The article also highlights the function of websites which are not related to any specific group. Indeed, these are of special importance for the far right as a political arena which is usually banned from the dominant societal discourses (if not even legally forbidden). Considering this, new modes of communication can be of greater use for extremist groups than for more traditional political actors. (author's abstract
Standards of Good Practice in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets
No full textComments most welcome! A German version of this article appears as: Schneider, Carsten Q.//Wagemann, Claudius (forthcoming): Standards guter Praxis in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) und Fuzzy-Sets, Pickel, Susanne//Pickel
Handbuch Methoden der Politikwissenschaft
No full textDieses Handbuch beinhaltet Beiträge zu Methodenforschung und -anwendung in der Politikwissenschaft, die von führenden Expertinnen und Experten im deutschsprachigen und internationalen Raum verfasst sind. Erstens wird dargestellt, welcher Erkenntnisgewinn mit der jeweiligen Methode möglich ist. Zweitens werden Grundprinzipien der jeweiligen Anwendung erläutert und der Leserschaft ein Einstieg in die Funktionsweise der Methode ermöglicht. Drittens befähigen die Beiträge, mit den beschriebenen Methoden und Techniken verfasste Veröffentlichungen kritisch zu lesen, die Vorgehensweise sowie Qualität der Methodenanwendung zu beurteilen und die Validität der erzielten Ergebnisse einzuschätzen. Und viertens skizzieren die Beiträge wichtige Anwendungsfelder der Methoden anhand von Beispielen politikwissenschaftlicher Veröffentlichungen.-- Methoden in der Politikwissenschaft – eine pluralistische Annäherung, Claudius Wagemann, Achim Goerres, and Markus B. Siewert
-- Part I Grundlagen
-- Epistemologische Grundlagen, Dirk Berg-Schlosser
-- Konzepte und Konzeptformierung, Özgür Özvatan and Markus B. Siewert
-- Operationalisierung und Messung, Raffael Heiss and Jörg Matthes
-- Understanding and Implementing Research Data Management, Sebastian Netscher and Alexia Katsanidou
-- Part II Typen von Forschungsdesigns
-- Experimente und experimentelle Forschungsdesigns, Ina Kubbe
-- Das Groß-N-Design, Anne-Kathrin Fischer and Achim Goerres
-- Vergleichende Fallstudien und Einzelfalldesigns, Markus B. Siewert and Claudius Wagemann
-- Rekonstruktiv-interpretative Designs, Ulrich Franke and Ulrich Roos
-- Mixed-Methods Designs, Martino Maggetti
-- Part III Auswahltechniken
-- Auswahl von Untersuchungsobjekten, Kai-Uwe Schnapp and Olaf Bock
-- Theoriegeleitete Fallauswahl, David Kuehn
-- Part IV Erhebungstechniken
-- Experteninterviews, Felix Goldberg and Achim Hildebrandt
-- Offene Interviews – Von Semistrukturiert bis Narrativ, Robert Kaiser
-- Gruppendiskussionen und Fokusgruppeninterviews, Katrin Prinzen
-- Ethnografie und Teilnehmende Beobachtung, Sina Birkholz, Annett Bochmann and Jan Schank
-- Designing Survey Questions and Choosing Survey Formats, Bernd Schlipphak and Mujtaba Isani
-- Die Nutzung von Webdaten in den Sozialwissenschaften, Simon Munzert and Dominic Nyhuis
-- Real-Time-Response-Messung, Jürgen Maier and Thorsten Faas
-- Geodaten und deren Analyse in der Politikwissenschaft, Nils B. Weidmann and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
-- Part V Auswertungstechniken
-- Multiple Regressionen mit unabhängigen Beobachtungen, Kilian Seng
-- Multiple Regression mit voneinander abhängigen Beobachtungen, Conrad Ziller
-- Mehrebenenmodelle, Manuela Pötschke
-- Strukturgleichungsmodelle, Carl C. Berning
-- Event-History-Analysis, Sebastian Jäckle
-- Netzwerkanalyse in der Politikwissenschaft, Philip Leifeld
-- Agentenbasierte Simulation in der Politikwissenschaft, Martin Neumann and Jan Lorenz
-- Datenvisualisierung für Exploration und Inferenz, Richard Traunmüller
-- Forecasting, Arndt Leininger
-- Bayesianische Inferenz als Alternative zur klassischen Statistik, Jeff Gill and Richard Traunmüller
-- Process Tracing Methods, Derek Beach
-- Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Claudius Wagemann and Markus B. Siewert
-- Hauptkomponentenanalyse und explorative Faktorenanalyse, Sabrina J. Mayer
-- Clusteranalysen, Pascal D. König
-- Computergestützte Textanalysen, Sven-Oliver Proksch
-- Quantitative Inhaltsanalyse, Swen Hutter
-- Historische Quellenanalyse, Arvid Schors
-- Diskursanalyse, Ruth Wodak
-- Videografie, Dorothee Gronostay and Sabine Manze
Configurative methods
No full textThis chapter follows Rihoux and Ragin (2009b: xviii) and understands Configurative Methods as methods of ‘systematic cross-case comparisons, while at the same time giving justice to within-case complexity, particularly in small- and intermediate-N research designs’ (2009b: xviii). This definition is part of how QCA can be seen (see Schneider and Wagemann, 2012: 8ff.), but can also be extended to other methods, as will become clear later in this chapter. Admittedly, all QCA applications recently also increasingly include examples of large-N studies (see the bibliographic overviews in Buche and Siewert, 2015; Rihoux et al., 2013; Wagemann et al., 2016), which has led to a discussion about this further diversification of QCA approaches (Fiss et al., 2013; Greckhamer et al., 2013). However, this amplification of the perspective is still connected to the basic principles of configurative analysis that had been developed in the early years of QCA methods so that, nowadays, a definition makes less explicit reference to the N of a study (although the diffusion of large-N studies may have some impact on the case-orientation of Configurative Methods, as Wagemann et al. (2016) empirically demonstrate). Thus, for our purposes, the term Configurative Methods mainly refers to systematic cross-case comparisons with a strong case-orientation and a recognition of case complexity
Clustered Europeanization and National Reform Programmes. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
No full textThis article aims to broaden the debate about clustered Europeanization by using insights from a fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and considering the European policies for growth and competitiveness (the so-called ‘Europe2020' strategy). We assess whether and to what extent different aspects of the EU2020 strategy have influenced the National Reform Programmes (NRPs), i.e., the policy tools by which each member state put its own pro-competitive strategy into practice. We look at the NRPs adopted by the member states during three years in order to assess to which extent they are ‘Europeanized'. By using fsQCA, we analyse the following conditions which can account for different levels of Europeanization of the national economic reforms: governmental and electoral stability; starting points referring to the targets for 2020; years passed after accession to the European Union; different levels of financial crisis in the moment when member states have adopted their own NRP
Methoden in der Politikwissenschaft : eine pluralistische Annäherung
No full textWas die Politikwissenschaft von der journalistischen, künstlerischen oder amateurhaften Beschäftigung mit Politik u. a. unterscheidet, ist das spezifisch wissenschaftliche Repertoire systematischer Methoden. Dieses Handbuch ist die umfangreichste deutschsprachige Darstellung aktueller Methoden der Politikwissenschaft am Ende des zweiten Jahrzehnts (2020). Die Herausgeber Claudius Wagemann, Achim Goerres und Markus B. Siewert haben dieses Projekt umgesetzt, weil sie die grundsätzliche Professionalisierung der Politikwissenschaft im Bereich Methoden unterstützen und eine Plattform schaffen wollen, auf der die Besten ihres Faches konzise und leicht zugängliche Beiträge zu einem methodischen Teilthema für Studierende und andere Wissenschaftlerinnen geben können. Die Lektüre eines Handbuchbeitrags erlaubt es den Leserinnen, sich zeiteffizient einen Überblick zu verschaffen, um sich danach entweder anhand der vorgeschlagenen weiterführenden Literatur weiter zu informieren oder einem anderen Methodeninstrumentarium zuzuwenden
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