Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Positions of Parties and Political Cleavages between Parties in Texts 1
5. PART I. Computational Methods for Political Text Analysis
6. PART I: Introduction 23
7. Comparing the Position of Canadian Political Parties using French and English Manifestos as Textual Data 27
8. Leveraging Textual Sentiment Analysis with Social Network Modelling 47
9. Issue Framing and Language Use in the Swedish Blogosphere 71
10. Text to Ideology or Text to Party Status? 93
11. Sentiment Analysis in Parliamentary Proceedings 117
12. The Qualitative Analysis of Political Documents 135
13. PART II. From Text to Political Positions via Discourse Analysis
14. PART II: Introduction 163
15. The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social Change 171
16. Christians, Feminists, Liberals, Socialists, Workers and Employers 189
17. Between Union and a United Ireland 207
18. Systematic Stylistic Analysis 225
19. Participation and recontextualisation in New Media 245
20. PART III. Converging methods
21. PART III: Introduction 271
22. From Text to the Construction of Political Party Landscapes 275
23. From Text to Political Positions 297
24. About the authors 325
25. Index 331