Term 1 Week 5
Qualitative text analysis
Among the most common sources of data in political science research are written (and increasingly visual) sources, such as personal letters, newspapers, party manifestoes, tv programmes. Although often associated with counting words or phrases, these primary sources can be analyzed with both quantitative and qualitative methods. Rather than defending one or the other approach, we concentrate on efforts to bridge the divide but focus primarily on qualitative methods for textual analysis, notably qualitative content analysis. How do we minimize the weak reliability, while maintaining the strong validity?
Methodological readings | Applied readings |
[1] Book available as e-book through library. Simply copy-paste the title of the book into the article search function of the 'encore'-platform. [2] Journal available as e-journal through library. Simply copy-paste the title of the article into the article search function of the 'encore'-platform. |
[1] [2] Journal available as e-journal through library. Simply copy-paste the title of the article into the article search function of the 'encore'-platform. |
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[1] Journal available as e-journal through library. Simply copy-paste the title of the article into the article search function of the 'encore'-platform. |