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Proksch, Sven-Oliver ORCID: 0000-0002-6130-6498, Lowe, Will ORCID: 0000-0002-1549-6163, Waeckerle, Jens and Soroka, Stuart (2019). Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: A New Approach to Measuring Conflict in Legislative Speeches. Legis. Stud. Q., 44 (1). S. 97 - 132. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1939-9162

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Abstract

Comparative scholars of legislative politics continue to face the challenge of measuring a key theoretical concept: conflict at the level of legislative bills. We address this challenge with a multilingual sentiment-based approach and show that such a measure can effectively capture different types of parliamentary conflict. We also demonstrate that an automated translation of the dictionary yields valid results and therefore greatly facilitates comparative work on legislatures. Our applications show that a sentiment approach recovers government-opposition dynamics in various settings. The use of a simple, translatable sentiment dictionary opens up the possibility of studying legislative conflict in bill debates across languages and countries.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Proksch, Sven-Oliver UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6130-6498 UNSPECIFIED Lowe, Will UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1549-6163 UNSPECIFIED Waeckerle, Jens UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Soroka, Stuart UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-157785
DOI:	10.1111/lsq.12218
Journal or Publication Title:	Legis. Stud. Q.
Volume:	44
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 97 - 132
Date:	2019
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1939-9162
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language POLICY-MAKING; POSITIONS; PARTIES; MEDIA; SCALE; NEWS Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/15778