Application of natural language processing to the electoral manifestos of social democratic parties in Central Eastern European countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/pce/16/1/article-p259.xml" target="_blank" >https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/pce/16/1/article-p259.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pce-2020-0012" target="_blank" >10.2478/pce-2020-0012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Application of natural language processing to the electoral manifestos of social democratic parties in Central Eastern European countries

Original language description

The paper examines electoral manifestos of social democratic parties in Visegrad countries through a computer-driven method of content analysis. The analysis focuses on a sentence sentiment (how parties talk about their priorities) and a keyword examination (what parties mostly talk about). Such analysis is not widespread in the academic literature related to Visegrad countries, where a human-based approach to content analysis of electoral manifestos prevails. The paper, however, does not aim to nullify the findings of the previous research, but aims to improve the understanding of the content of manifestos through a different research method. The paper's findings have confirmed the pro-European support of social democratic parties as well as the focus on predominantly socio-economic issues in manifestos. Additionally, the paper explores the effect of incumbency on the manifesto's content. The incumbency seems to have an impact on the manifesto sentiment, but not on keywords.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politics in Central Europe

ISSN

1801-3422

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

259-282

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85084578852