Other Examples Flashcards
Research Design
Samples
Zuber’s Party Elites
Descriptive Research
How is climate change communicated on social
media by youth activists
A Concept
Rooduijn: Populism (People-Centrism, Anti-Elitism, Homogeneity of the People, Proclamation of a Crisis as Consequence? Necessary but not Sufficient)
Explanatory Research
“What explains the different degrees of change observed in intergovernmental balance of power” resulting from decentralization
A Theory
Presidentialism is less conducive to stable democracy (than parliamentarism)
- Dual legitimacy can lead to counterweighing majorities
* Fixed terms can lead to deadlock and blockage
* Winner-takes-all logic of presidential elections increases the stakes of the
game (creates winners and losers)
Narrative Analysis
Mucha (2016) – Securitization and militias during civil war in Peru
RQ: What were the specific effects of state co-opted self-defense militias on everyday lives in indigenous communities?
Role of women as ronderas and care givers vs. the narrative of the male peasant
warrior fighting off the guerrillas (see p. 335-337)
Discourse Analysis
Nygard & Duvander (2021) – Social Inclusion or Gender Equality?
Research aim: “to analyse government and party programmes … to discern how these ideas have been understood and used in discourses legitimating, or contesting, parental leave reform”
Note: “Although we focus on discourses, we did not use discourse analysis since our interest related more to the categorisation of meaning rather than the revelation of underlying power constellations (Boréus & Bergström, 2017” p.
Rhetorical Analysis
Molder et al. (2022) – Framing the
Global Youth Climate Movement
Research aim: “we explore how climate
change is communicated on social
media by youth activists, and then
examine these concepts through the
unique case of Thunberg’s Instagram”
p. 668
