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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Research Practices and Operations in Studying Debates and Documents
Taru HaapalaKari PalonenClaudia Wiesnersubject
PoliticsManagement sciencePolitical scienceDiscourse analysisResearch questionsSet (psychology)Research questionEpistemologydescription
The chapter presents research practices and operations (or methods and techniques) that are useful in studying debates and documents as part, and as arenas and reflections, of political activity, political processes, strategies and actions. It contains first general considerations that are valid and helpful for most interpretative and textual analyses, with additional emphasis set on how to analyse political activity linked to texts: the research interest and research question target the moves, strategies, interests and actors involved in the political processes in question, rather than simply the contents of the text, and this in return crucially determines material selection, research questions, and setting and course of the analysis. The second part presents the core steps of this kind of analysis, using an exemplar case.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2017-01-01 |