Visualization, Interactive Visualization, and Open Science

Being European, the nationalist way: Europe in the discourse of radical right parties

“…Given this variety, the present analysis is limited in terms of depth. To overcome this, triangulation would be the way forward (Rheindorf, 2019:6), through, first, varying the method, for instance narrowing the sample to a smaller selection and to present qualitative case studies of these three types of Euronationalism. Such approach would allow to analyse how the different visions of Europe relate to each other in an intertextual fashion.…”

“…The literature on discourse analysis and corpus linguistic is mostly divided between corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches, while acknowledging that the line, in practice, is fuzzy (for a summary of debates see among others: Baker and Egbert, 2019; Rheindorf, 2019). We conducted a dictionary-based text analysis, using lexicometric quantitative analysis with Wordstat 8 (QDA-miner).…”

“…To build the dictionary, we first relied on Automated Topic Modelling (ATM) to uncover the most frequent themes present in the data, while minimizing researchers’ biais (Rheindorf, 2019). Performed with R on all speeches, the ATM produced 30 topics (see Figure 7 in Appendix), most of which deal with procedure and specific policy areas (such as trade, single market, security, economy, migration, and so on).…”