Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis

Name: Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis
ISBN: 9781446263358

doi:10.4135/9781446268544

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Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis

Edited by:
Goodwin John
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Series: SAGE Library of Research Methods
- Publication year: 2012
- Online pub date: February 11, 2015
Discipline: Secondary Data Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446268544
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career development, case studies, classification, content analysis, data analysis, data archives, data collection, decision making, discipline, evaluation, government, information sources, information storage and retrieval, interest groups, internet research, interviews, longitudinal research, market research, marketing research, measurement, primary data, public policy, qualitative analysis, qualitative data analysis, qualitative research, quantitative research, research and development, research design, research methods, research questions, secondary data, secondary data analysis, secondary research, social analysis, social change, social research, social science, social science research, sociology, statistics, structural equation modeling, students, survey research, surveying, surveys
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The analysis of interest group influence is crucial in order to explain policy outcomes and to assess the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. However, owing to methodological difficulties in operationalizing influence, only few have studied it. This article therefore proposes a new approach to the measurement of influence, drawing on quantitative text analysis. By comparing interest groups’ policy positions with the final policy output, one can draw conclusions about the winners and losers of the decision-making process. In order to examine the applicability of text analysis, a case study is presented comparing hand-coding, WORDSCORES and Wordfish. The results correlate highly and text analysis proves to be a powerful tool to measure interest groups’ policy positions, paving the way for the large-scale analysis of interest group influence.

‘Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis’, HeikeKlüver European Union Politics, 10 (4) (2009): 535–549. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Reprinted with permission.

Chronology of Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis

Volume I: Using Secondary Sources and Secondary Analysis
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- 1. What is Secondary Analysis?
  
  Janet Heaton
  2004
  Reworking Qualitative Data
- 2. Introduction to Secondary Analysis of Survey Data
  
  K. Kiecolt | Laura Nathan
  1985
  Secondary Analysis of Survey Data
- 3. Secondary Analysis and the Relationship between Official and Academic Social Research
  
  Catherine Hakim
  1982
  Sociology
- 4. The General Household Survey as a Source for Secondary Analysis
  
  G. Gilbert | Angela Dale | Sara Arber
  1983
  Sociology
- 5. Combining Registry, Primary, and Secondary Data Sources to Identify the Impact of Cancer on Labor Market Outcomes
  
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  2005
  Medical Decision Making
- 6. Using Secondary Data in Marketing Research: A Project that Melds Web and Off-Web Sources
  
  Stephen Castleberry
  2001
  Journal of Marketing Education
- 7. Secondary Research, New Product Screening, and the Marketing Research Course: An Experiment in Structured Decision Making
  
  William Lesch | James Hazeltine
  1990
  Journal of Marketing Education
- 8. Secondary Data for Policy Studies: Benefits and Challenges
  
  Wendy Young | Hosihn Ryu
  2000
  Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice
- 9. Conducting Secondary Research
  
  Bonita Kolb
  2008
  Marketing Research
- 10. Data Collection in the Urban Setting
  
  Gregory Andranovich | Gerry Riposa
  1993
  Doing Urban Research
- 11. Introduction to Secondary Research
  
  David Stewart | Michael Kamins
  1993
  Secondary Research
- 12. Secondary Data Analysis
  
  Ernest Brewer
  2011
  Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
- 13. Official Statistics
  
  Piergiorgio Corbetta
  2003
  Social Research: Theory, Methods and Techniques
- 14. Using other People's Data
  
  Theodore Greenstein
  2006
  Methods of Family Research
- 15. Secondary Data Analysis
  
  Paula Devine
  2003
  The A–Z of Social Research
- 16. The Importance of Census and other Secondary Data in Development Studies
  
  Allan Findlay
  2006
  Doing Development Research
- 17. The Basic Language of Statistics
  
  Rachad Antonius
  2003
  Interpreting Quantitative Data with SPSS
Volume II: Quantitative Approaches to Secondary Analysis
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- 18. Secondary Analysis of a Major Societal Experiment: The Effects of Standardized Testing in Elementary Schools
  
  Joseph Locascio
  1984
  Evaluation Review
- 19. Complex Sampling Designs and Statistical Issues in Secondary Analysis
  
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  2002
  Western Journal of Nursing Research
- 20. Research Methodology: Using Online Technology for Secondary Analysis of Survey Research Data – “Act Globally, Think Locally”
  
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- 21. Testing Mediation Using Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Modeling Analyses in Secondary Data
  
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  2005
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- 23. A Secondary Survey Analysis Study of African American Ethnic Identity Orientations in Two National Samples
  
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- 24. Neighborhood Effects in Temporal Perspective: The Impact of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on High School Graduation
  
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- 25. Community College Student Engagement Patterns: A Typology Revealed through Exploratory Cluster Analysis
  
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- 26. Patterns of Substance Involvement and Criminal Behavior: A Gender-based Cluster Analysis of Pennsylvania Arrestees
  
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- 27. Regional Differences in Labour Market Participation of Young People in the European Union
  
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- 28. Determining the Relative Importance of Predictors in Logistic Regression: An Extension of Relative Weight Analysis
  
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- 29. Women, Lifelong Learning and Transitions into Employment
  
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  2006
  Work, Employment and Society
- 30. Strong Families, Tidy Houses, and Children's Values in Adult Life: Are “Chaotic”, “Crowded” and “Unstable” Homes Really So Bad?
  
  Eirini Flouri
  2009
  International Journal of Behavioral Development
- 31. Race and Ethnicity and the Controversy over the US Census
  
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  2000
  Current Sociology
- 32. Identifying and Measuring Dimensions of Urban Deprivation in Montreal: An Analysis of the 1996 Census Data
  
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  2001
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- 33. Disparities in Access to Care among Asthmatic Children in Relation to Race and Socioeconomic Status
  
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  2010
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  2010
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- 35. Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis
  
  Heike Klüver
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- 36. Facilitating Content Analysis in Tourism Research
  
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  2009
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- 37. When Less is More: Selection Problems in Large-N and Small-N Cross-National Comparisons
  
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- 38. Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps: Sources of Earnings Inequality in 20 Countries
  
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Volume III: The Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data
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- 39. Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data: A Valuable Method for Exploring Sensitive Issues with an Elusive Population?
  
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- 40. Mobility Adaptations of Older Adults: A Secondary Analysis
  
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- 42. Exploring Complex Transitions: Looking Back at the ‘Golden Age’ of from School to Work1
  
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- 43. Through the Interviewer's Lens: Representations of 1960s Households and Families in a Lost Sociological Study
  
  John Goodwin | Henrietta O'Connor
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- 44. Resistance and Adaptation to Criminal Identity: Using Secondary Analysis to Evaluate Classic Studies of Crime and Deviance
  
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  Sociology
- 45. Can we Re-Use Qualitative Data via Secondary Analysis? Notes on some Terminological and Substantive Issues
  
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- 46. (Re)Using Qualitative Data?1
  
  Niamh Moore
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- 47. A Reflexive Account of Reusing Qualitative Data: Beyond Primary/Secondary Dualism
  
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- 48. Linking Stress and Injury in the Farming Environment: A Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data
  
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- 50. Online Petitions: New Tools of Secondary Analysis?
  
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- 51. Using Documents in Research
  
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- 52. Using Documents
  
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- 53. Secondary Analysis of Archived Data
  
  Louise Corti | Paul Thompson
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- 54. Types of Qualitative Secondary Analysis
  
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- 55. Revisiting
  
  Julie McLeod | Rachel Thomson
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  Researching Social Change
- 56. A Theoretical Understanding of Sickness Absence among Women who have Experienced Workplace Bullying
  
  Sue O'Donnell | Judith MacIntosh | Judith Wuest
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- 57. Distinguishing the Trees from the Forest: Applying Cluster Analysis to Thematic Qualitative Data
  
  Greg Guest | Eleanor McLellan
  2003
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Volume IV: Ethical, Methodological and Practical Issues in Secondary Analysis
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- 58. Ethical and Representational Issues in Qualitative Secondary Analysis
  
  Sally Thorne
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  Qualitative Health Research
- 59. Utilizing Data from a Lost Sociological Project: Experiences, Insights, Promises
  
  Henrietta O'Connor | John Goodwin
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  Qualitative Research
- 60. Obtaining and Evaluating Data Sets for Secondary Analysis in Nursing Research
  
  Ann Jacobson | Patti Hamilton | James Galloway
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  Western Journal of Nursing Research
- 61. The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data: Reading Suicide Files in a Coroner's Office
  
  Ben Fincham | Jonathan Scourfield | Susanne Langer
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  Qualitative Health Research
- 62. Secondary Consumer Data
  
  Mario Mazzocchi
  2008
  Statistics for Marketing and Consumer Research
- 63. Identifying what Data must be Collected
  
  Roger Kaufman | Ingrid Guerra | William Platt
  2006
  Practical Evaluation for Educators
- 64. Evaluating Secondary Sources
  
  David Stewart | Michael Kamins
  1993
  Secondary Research
- 65. Alternative Data Sources
  
  Rosalind Dworkin
  1992
  Researching Persons with Mental Illness
- 66. Locating Appropriate Data
  
  K. Kiecolt | Laura Nathan
  1985
  Secondary Analysis of Survey Data
- 67. Secondary Analysis: An Important Resource for Educational Research and Evaluation1
  
  Leigh Burstein
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  Educational Researcher
- 68. Qualitative Researchers' Understandings of their Practice and the Implications for Data Archiving and Sharing
  
  Alex Broom | Lynda Cheshire | Michael Emmison
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- 69. Using Large-Scale Databases in Evaluation: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
  
  William Penuel | Barbara Means
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  American Journal of Evaluation
- 70. Large Scale Survey Data in Career Development Research
  
  Matthew Diemer
  2008
  Journal of Career Development
- 71. The Provision of Access to Quantitative Data for Secondary Analysis
  
  Keith Cole | Jo Wathan | Louise Corti
  2008
  The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

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