AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Manifestos: Cumulative File (SUF edition)

Müller, Wolfgang C.; Bodlos, Anita; Dolezal, Martin; Eder, Nikolaus; Ennser‐Jedenastik, Laurenz; Gahn, Christina; Graf, Elisabeth; Haselmayer, Martin; Haudum, Teresa; Huber, Lena Maria; Kaltenegger, Matthias; Meyer, Thomas M.; Praprotnik, Katrin; Winkler, Anna Katharina; Wurzer, Katharina

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“…9 the resulting values indicate the importance of specific issues to a party compared to the other parties. in order to create this independent variable of manifesto issue variation, i have recoded the manifesto data set on austrian parties provided by Müller et al (2020) into the issue categories used in this study.…”

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Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat

Ivanusch

2023

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Parliamentary speeches are an important communication channel for political parties. A growing amount of literature suggests that parties use them to send policy signals in party competition. Although this perspective has become more popular in the literature, there is a lack of studies that focus on issue competition. I take a step towards closing this research gap by using a text‐as‐data approach to analyze parliamentary speeches in the Austrian Nationalrat. The data set consists of more than 56,700 speeches given by MPs between 2002 and 2019. I apply a semi‐supervised technique to classify the speeches at sentence level into 20 issue categories. The analysis shows that, despite the constraining parliamentary context (e.g., legislative agenda), parties put comparatively strong emphasis on their issue preferences. The magnitude of this effect, however, depends on a party's legislative agenda‐setting power. These findings confirm the presence and specific nature of issue competition in parliamentary speeches.

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Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat

Ivanusch

2023

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“…Our second central independent variable is taken from the Autnes manifesto data (Mu ¨ller et al, 2020). It is simply the logged percentage of statements in a party's manifesto devoted to each of the 35 issue categories (for details on the manifesto coding procedure, see Dolezal et al, 2016).…”

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Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook

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Representative democracy presents politicians with an information problem: How to find out what voters want? While party elites used to rely on their membership or mass surveys, social media enables them to learn about voters’ issue priorities in real time and adapt their campaign messages accordingly. Yet, we know next to nothing about how campaigns make use of these new possibilities. To narrow this gap, we use a unique data set covering every Facebook post by party leaders and party organizations in the run-up to the 2017 Austrian parliamentary election. We test the hypothesis that party actors are more likely to double down on issues that have previously generated higher levels of user engagement. We also theorize that responsiveness is conditional on major/minor party status and pre-campaign issue salience. The analysis shows that parties’ issue strategies respond to user engagement, especially major parties on low-salience issues. This represents some of the first empirical evidence on how social media can enhance parties’ issue responsiveness.

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AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Manifestos: Cumulative File (SUF edition)

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Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat

Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat

Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook

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