The citations below represent a small sampling of papers in the political science and international relations space that use some of the less-common methods discussed in Chapter 5. To locate any item, simply copy and paste its DOI into the search bar of your browser.
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Binder, Martin. 2015. “Paths to Intervention: What Explains the UN’s Selective Response to Humanitarian Crises?” Journal of Peace Research 52(6): 712–26. doi:10.1177/0022343315585847.
Feinstein, Yuval. 2016. “Rallying around the President: When and Why Do Americans Close Ranks behind Their Presidents during International Crisis and War?” Social Science History 40(2): 305–38. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2016.5.
Lindemann, Stefan, and Andreas Wimmer. 2018. “Repression and Refuge: Why Only Some Politically Excluded Ethnic Groups Rebel.” Journal of Peace Research 55(3): 305–19. doi:10.1177/0022343317747337.
Olive, Andrea, Vagisha Gunasekara, and Leigh Raymond. 2012. “Normative Beliefs in State Policy Choice.” Political Research Quarterly 65(3): 642–55. doi:10.1177/1065912911408110.
Pinfari, Marco. 2011. “Time to Agree: Is Time Pressure Good for Peace Negotiations?” Journal of Conflict Resolution 55(5): 683–709. doi:10.1177/0022002711414370.
Suzuki, Akisato, and Neophytos Loizides. 2011. “Escalation of Interstate Crises of Conflictual Dyads: Greece–Turkey and India–Pakistan.” Cooperation and Conflict 46(1): 21–39. doi:10.1177/0010836710396770.
Big Data
Beauchamp, Nicholas. 2017. “Predicting and Interpolating State-Level Polls Using Twitter Textual Data.” American Journal of Political Science 61(2): 490–503. doi:10.1111/ajps.12274. (using automated content analysis)
Bond, Robert, and Solomon Messing. 2015. “Quantifying Social Media’s Political Space: Estimating Ideology from Publicly Revealed Preferences on Facebook.” American Political Science Review 109(1): 62–78. doi:10.1017/S0003055414000525. (using automated content analysis)
Diermeier, Daniel, Jean-François Godbout, Bei Yu, and Stefan Kaufmann. 2012. “Language and Ideology in Congress.” British Journal of Political Science 42(1): 31–55. doi:10.1017/S0007123411000160.
Farrell, Justin. 2016. “Corporate Funding and Ideological Polarization about Climate Change.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(1): 92–97. doi:10.1073/pnas.1509433112 .
Hersh, Eitan D. 2013. “Long-Term Effect of September 11 on the Political Behavior of Victims’ Families and Neighbors.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(52): 20959–63. doi:10.1073/pnas.1315043110.
Klüver, Heike. 2009. “Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis.” European Union Politics 10(4): 535–49. doi:10.1177/1465116509346782.
Parthasarathy, Ramya, Vijayendra Rao, and Nethra Palaniswamy. 2019. “Deliberative Democracy in an Unequal World: A Text-As-Data Study of South India’s Village Assemblies.” American Political Science Review 113(3): 623–40. doi: 10.1017/S0003055419000182.
Content Analysis
Evans, Michael, Wayne McIntosh, Jimmy Lin, and Cynthia Cates. 2007. “Recounting the Courts? Applying Automated Content Analysis to Enhance Empirical Legal Research.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 4(4): 1007–39. doi:10.1111/j.1740-1461.2007.00113.x.
Fleming, Anthony, Dylan S. McLean, and Raymond Tatalovich. 2018. “Debating Gun Control in Canada and the United States: Divergent Policy Frames and Political Cultures.” World Affairs 181(4): 348–71. doi:10.1177/0043820018812609. (in comparative cases)
Gianfreda, Stella. 2018. “Politicization of the Refugee Crisis?: A Content Analysis of Parliamentary Debates in Italy, the UK, and the EU.” Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 48(1): 85–108. doi:10.1017/ipo.2017.20.
Guggenheim, Lauren, S. Mo Jang, Soo Young Bae, and W. Russell Neuman. 2015. “The Dynamics of Issue Frame Competition in Traditional and Social Media.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 659: 207–24. (with big data tools)
Medzihorsky, Juraj, Levente Littvay, and Erin K. Jenne. 2014. “Has the Tea Party Era Radicalized the Republican Party? Evidence from Text Analysis of the 2008 and 2012 Republican Primary Debates.” PS: Political Science & Politics 47(4): 806–12. doi:10.1017/S1049096514001085.
Merolla, Jennifer, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Chris Haynes. 2013. “‘Illegal,’ ‘Undocumented,’ or ‘Unauthorized’: Equivalency Frames, Issue Frames, and Public Opinion on Immigration.” Perspectives on Politics 11(3): 789–807. (with experiment)
Small, Tamara A. 2011. “What the Hashtag?: A Content Analysis of Canadian Politics on Twitter.” Information, Communication & Society 14(6): 872–95. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2011.554572.