Semantic text analysis and the measurement of ideological developments within fledgling democracies

This methodological article presents an introduction to the field of clause-based semantic text analysis. The method is introduced and elaborated with regard to the study of ideological developments within fledgling democracies. In such studies modality plays an important role. Democratic societies...

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Published in:Social Science Information 2015-03, Vol.54 (1), p.23-37
Main Authors: Popping, Roel, Roberts, Carl W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Central Europe
Communism
Content analysis
Democracy
Democratization
Eastern Europe
Hungary
Ideology
Political ideology
Semantics
Society
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Summary:This methodological article presents an introduction to the field of clause-based semantic text analysis. The method is introduced and elaborated with regard to the study of ideological developments within fledgling democracies. In such studies modality plays an important role. Democratic societies are maintained in accordance with either a modality of achievement or one of necessity. This is illustrated using editorial texts from Hungary, one of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe where people had to find their democratic way after communism disappeared in 1989.
ISSN:0539-0184
1461-7412
DOI:10.1177/0539018414553865