Drs. Annemarie van Elfrinkhof
- Telephone:+31 20 59 86902
- Room nr:z-327
- E-mail:a.m.e.van.elfrinkhof@vu.nl
- Unit:faculteit der sociale wetenschappen (afdeling politicologie)
- Position:PhD Candidate
Specialization
Party positioning and Content Analysis
PhD Project
Party Profiling and Mapping
This PhD project is part of the Camera project From Text to Political Positions. Besides me, a PhD in Political Science, two PhD Candidates of the Faculty of Linguistics are part of the project.
The project focuses on the question of how to systematically extract policy positions of political actors (candidates and parties) from texts of the documents and speeches they have produced. A related problem is how to assess the relative position of each political actor on a policy scale or ideological dimension on which parties compete with one another.
Thus far, no comprehensive study has tried to combine all available methods so as to minimise the weaknesses of the individual approaches and maximise the benefits of each of the approaches. This PhD project aims to combine and compare various methods to answer the research question: How can a combination of various methods of large-scale text analysis tackle the problem of going from the language used in the texts to the positioning of the parties along salient political dimensions? The main goal of the project is to develop an automated method of extraction of political positions of actors from relevant texts.
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