Essays about: "Parliamentary speeches."

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  1. 1. THE SWEDISH MODERATE PARTY – NOT SO OPENLY HEARTED ANYMORE?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Arvid Barregren; [2023-02-07]
    Keywords : Populist Radical Right; Moderates; Sweden Democrats; Meguids Modified Spatial Model; Political language; Political communication; Populism; Nativism; Authoritarianism; Thematic analysis; Parliamentary speeches.;

    Abstract : Existing literature argues that mainstream parties strategise when other niche parties threaten their position. I argue that we can observe this unfold on a practical level through how the mainstream parties use language. READ MORE

  2. 2. The naivety towards China is now over : An analysis of the Swedish political elite's changed attitude toward China

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hampus Håkansson; [2023]
    Keywords : ontological security theory; OST; Sweden; China; discourse analysis; Robert J. Steele; anxiety; critical situations;

    Abstract : Despite the well-established consensus within the Swedish parliament regarding the benefits of trade with China while at the same time promoting democracy, an unexpected change arose in June 2023, when a united Swedish parliament adopted a report that identified China as a threat to Swedish interests. Consequently, this thesis seeks to address the research question: Can the Swedish political elite's changed attitude towards China be understood through the theory of ontological security? Employing a framework established in Robert J. READ MORE

  3. 3. Parliament proceeding classification via Machine Learning algorithms: A case of Greek parliament proceedings

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik

    Author : Christos-Sotirios Kavallos; [2023]
    Keywords : Machine learning; supervised learning; text classification; parliamentary proceedings; Greek language.;

    Abstract : The Greek Parliament is a critical institution for the Greek Democracy, where important decisions are made that affect the lives of millions of people. It consists of representatives from different political parties, and each party has a unique political ideology, stance, and agenda. READ MORE

  4. 4. Investigating the Reciprocal Relationship between News and Parliament: A Study of Strikes in the UK Using Deep-learning Sentiment Analysis and Vector Autoregression

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Yente Meijers; [2023]
    Keywords : parliamentary debate; Hansard; newspaper coverage; UK strikes; agenda setting; BERT; SiEBERT; NLP; deep learning; sentiment analysis; vector autoregression; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Previous research has shown that the relationship between the news and parliament is complex and highly variable. Studies have found that in many countries, parliament has minimal influence on the news. However, in the UK, a reciprocal influence between parliament and the news was found, with the media having a stronger effect. READ MORE

  5. 5. Political Parties on the Move: Computational Scaling Method Applied to Swedish Parliamentary Debates

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Carl-Oscar Källström Ståhlgren; [2022]
    Keywords : Estimation methods; political space; parliamentary speeches; political speech; text analysis; Swedish politics; algorithm; models; word frequency analysis; time series; left-right; Wordfish;

    Abstract : Over the years, a variety of methods have been used in order toestimate policy positions for political parties in national parliaments. This papersets out to apply a novel computational method called Wordfish and apply it to aheavily under-researched form of political text, parliamentary speeches. READ MORE