Text as Data in Interest Group Research
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| Publication date | 2020 |
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| Book title | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs |
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| Edition | Living |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publisher | Cham: Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Abstract | Text analysis is highly useful for scholars working on lobbying and interest groups. It is a method through which organized interests, their positions on issues, and the frames that they employ can be identified within bodies of text. This technique allows scholars to measure access to different types of venues and the policy positions that groups express. It can reveal patterns of populations and communities that can be used as (in)dependent variables. In turn, these can be linked to characteristics of organized interests, the context in which they operate and policy outcomes. |
| Document type | Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary |
| Note | Living reference work entry |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13895-0_31-1 |
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Text as Data in Interest Group Research Ellis Aizenberg
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