Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Differential Influence of Three Types of Elites

这个项目考察和比较了三种不同类型的精英对一个重要的与安全相关的审议领域施加的影响。该项目将调查这样一个命题，即通常认为经济精英占主导地位的假设在这一领域是不成立的。数据将来自1990年至2019年各种汇编的期刊、杂志和官方文本。将使用计算机辅助内容分析和叙事分析对这些内容进行分析。调查结果可能也与其他审议领域相关，并将为那些与安全决策有关的人提供信息。数据来自具有代表性的文本语料库，这些文本汇编自官方报告、期刊和杂志以及不同类型的官方记录。语料库涵盖了这三类精英及其在这一领域的话语，每一类大约有一百万字。涵盖的日期从1990年到2019年。数据分析将整合多种计算机辅助内容分析和定性叙事分析技术。结构话题模型和概念移动者的距离将被用来比较和对比每一类精英的关注点。定性叙事分析、概念推动者的距离和文本网络分析将被用在两个不同的问题上，以调查不同的精英是如何形成叙事的。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project examines and compares the effects of influence exerted by three different categories of elites on an important security-related area of deliberation. The project will investigate the proposition that the usual assumption of the preeminence of the economic elite is not valid in this area. Data will come from a variety of compiled journals, magazines, and official texts from 1990 to 2019. These will be analyzed using computer-assisted content analysis and narrative analysis. Findings are likely to be relevant for other areas of deliberation as well and will be informative for those concerned with security decision-making.The data come from a representative corpus of texts compiled from official reports, journals and magazines, and different kinds of official records. The corpus covers the three categories of elites and their discourse in this area, with approximately one million words for each one. The dates covered are from 1990 to 2019. Data analysis will integrate multiple computer-assisted content analysis and qualitative narrative analysis techniques. Structural Topic Model and Concept Mover’s Distance will be used to compare and contrast the focus of each category of elite. Qualitative narrative analysis, Concept Mover’s Distance, and Text Network Analysis will be used on two different issues to investigates how different elites have shaped narratives.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.