What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging daily news coverage to measure issue attention in the European Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7772425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michal Ovádek (0000-0002-2552-2580, KU Leuven, corresponding author), Nicolas Lampach (0000-0003-2507-501X, KU Leuven), Arthur Dyevre (0000-0002-8702-6179, KU Leuven) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 204-232 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Union Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-1165 • E-ISSN: 1741-2757 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1465116520902530 |
| OpenAlex | W2969330433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 61 |
Research on issue attention in the European Union has focused on the prominence of EU integration in domestic politics and media and, at EU level, on the salience of individual issues and legislative files, often in relation to lobbying. Existing EU-level measures of issue saliency, though, are limited in scope and periodicity and tend to reflect the policy priorities of a single institutional actor rather than that of the broader EU elite sphere. We present an alternative measure of issue attention leveraging the quasi-institutional nature of the Agence Europe daily bulletin which provides comprehensive but independent news coverage of EU affairs. We use text-mining techniques, including dynamic topic modelling, in combination with manual classification to map issue prevalence between 1979 and 2018. In addition to reporting validation results, we illustrate how our measure relates to other indicators of EU agenda formation and explain how researchers can make use of our new dataset
Business · Cognitive psychology · Comparative politics · Data mining · Elite · European union · International trade · Legislature · Measure (data warehouse · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Salience (neuroscience · Scope (computer science · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Psychology
Making the News
Dynamic topic models
Evaluation methods for topic models
A correlated topic model of Science
STM
Probabilistic topic models
Issue Evolution
A Community of Europeans?
Framing Europe
Inside Copenhagen
In Search of Europe
The European Union’s Performance in the International Climate Change Regime
Agenda responsiveness in the European Council
The party politics of the Euro crisis in the German Bundestag
Balanced or Biased? Interest Groups and Legislative Lobbying in the European News Media
Exploring the Political Agenda of the European Parliament Using a Dynamic Topic Modeling Approach
Policy Punctuations and Issue Diversity on the European Council Agenda
Institutional issue proclivity in the EU
Crashing and creeping
Agenda-setting in the European Union
Agenda-setting strategies in EU policy processes
Agenda‐setting in the European community
From Summitry to EU Government
The European Union at the Copenhagen climate negotiations
The European Commission and the implementation of its legislative programme
The European Union democratic deficit
Positions and salience in European Union politics
Political attention in the Council of the European Union
Measuring the European Council agenda
The contextual nature of lobbying
Who inhabits the European public sphere? Winners and losers, supporters and opponents in Europeanised political debates
The salience of the European integration issue
Structural Topic Models for Open‐Ended Survey Responses
From Pork to Policy
Pigeonholing Partisans
Text Preprocessing For Unsupervised Learning
Text as Data
Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Comparative Politics
A Bayesian Hierarchical Topic Model for Political Texts
The EU's role in climate change negotiations
The political salience of EU policies
Comparative studies of policy agendas
Public opinion and interest group influence
Measuring salience in EU legislative politics
Communicating supranational governance? The salience of EU affairs in the German Bundestag, 1991–2013
How to Analyze Political Attention with Minimal Assumptions and Costs
On the salience of political issues
Media Bias against Foreign Firms as a Veiled Trade Barrier
Reliability in Coding Open-Ended Data
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |