Framing is a political strategy in which politicians carefully word their statements in order to control public perception and discussion of current issues. Previous works exploring political framing have focused on analysis of frames in longer texts, such as newspaper articles, or tweets relevant to specific events. We present the first in-depth analysis of issueindependent framing for politic...

We examine whether individual differences in needs for security and certainty predict conservative (vs. liberal) position on both cultural and economic political issues and whether these effects are conditional on nation-level characteristics and individual-level political engagement. Analyses with cross-national data from 51 nations reveal that valuing conformity, security, and tradition over ...

We examine whether using frame choices in forum statements can help us identify framing strategies in parliamentary discourse. In this analysis, we show how features based on embedding representations can improve discovering various frames in argumentative political speech. Given the complex nature of the parliamentary discourse, the initial results that are presented here are promising. We fur...

Scholars, jurists, and citizens have long been concerned with the question of whether donations lead to an undue distortion of lawmakers’ behavior. After decades of research, methodological shortcomings have prevented a clearer understanding of the role of campaign donations on political outcomes from emerging. I begin with a methodological critique of observational research’s attempts to answe...

The quantity of "horse-race" coverage of political campaigns has been amply documented, but its consequences for the dynamics of campaigns are less well understood. This study examines the effects of media portrayals of public support for candidates on the behavior of potential campaign contributors. This relationship is tested in the context of the four leading Democratic presidential primary ...

this study aims to investigate the changes in turkey's security discourse in process of turkey's accession to european :union:. it seems that europeanization of turkey is one of the most important factors in the change of its security discourse. turkey's political and security language has been changed and, in this country, we are witnessing a new political and social contract th...

This article analyses the political campaign of rather under-researched Bancada Ativista, a prefigurative progressive experience comprised nine co-candidates running for single seat in State Chamber Sao Paulo during 2018 Brazilian elections. The brought about by Ativista stands as prolific effort its aim to transform legislative action, responding challenges posed contemporary crisis representa...

This paper examines the use of television as a political campaign tool in the 1983-1989 elections in Argentina. Campaigns were conducted against the background of a national television system that was subject to both commercial and political pressures. Initially, politicians’ lack of experience in exploiting the medium led to a scramble for air time right before the election. Within a few years...

the islamic revolution helped develop a new discourse and semantic system. one of the methods to study or analyze the political phenomena is critical discourse analysis namely, that of laclau and mouffe›s discourse, the most pertinent. this article examines its main question whether the values of the islamic revolution concepts and identity are constructed, spread and articulated according to l...