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

本项目审查和比较了三种不同类别的精英对一个重要的与安全有关的审议领域施加的影响。 该项目将调查的命题，即经济精英的卓越的通常假设是不成立的，在这一领域。 数据将来自1990年至2019年的各种汇编期刊，杂志和官方文本。 这些将使用计算机辅助内容分析和叙述分析进行分析。 研究结果可能与其他领域的审议，以及将为那些关心的安全决策提供信息。数据来自一个有代表性的语料库的文本汇编从官方报告，期刊和杂志，以及不同类型的官方记录。该语料库涵盖了这三类精英及其话语，每类约100万字。涵盖的日期为1990年至2019年。 数据分析将整合多种计算机辅助内容分析和定性叙述分析技术。 本研究采用结构主题模型和概念移动距离来比较和对比各类精英的关注点。 定性叙事分析、概念推动者距离和文本网络分析将用于两个不同的问题，以调查不同的精英如何塑造叙事。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，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.