Populism in the Plenary - Populist Rhetoric and its Effects on Debates, Legislators and Voters

全体会议中的民粹主义——民粹主义言论及其对辩论、立法者和选民的影响

• 批准号: 2391548
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2391548
• 关键词: Populism; Plenary; Populist; Rhetoric; its

: What makes political rhetoric populist? And, what are the effects of populist rhetoric on parliamentary debates, legislators and voters? I adopt a quantitative research approach in order to measure the presence of populist rhetoric in parliamentary debates of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2017, to investigate how populist rhetoric affects parliamentary debates as well as the behaviour of legislators, to assess the effects that populist rhetoric has on voters and how these effects can be changed. More precisely, I will measure populist rhetoric by the means of a supervised classifier which is trained through crowdsourcing, investigate the effects of populist rhetoric on elite behaviour by combining a bouquet of different tools of quantitative text analysis such as dictionaries and topic models, and assess its effects on voters in two survey experiments. Despite being a contribution on its own, developing a reliable measure for populist rhetoric in parliamentary debates is important because it is a prerequisite for systematically investigating how populist rhetoric affects parliamentary and democratic discourse as well as voters which in turn is vital for understanding how populism transforms European politics.

：是什么让政治言论变得民粹主义？而且，民粹主义言论对议会辩论、立法者和选民有何影响？我采用定量研究的方法来衡量1999年至2017年欧洲议会议会辩论中民粹主义言论的存在情况，调查民粹主义言论如何影响议会辩论以及立法者的行为，评估民粹主义言论对选民的影响以及如何改变这些影响。更准确地说，我将通过众包训练的有监督分类器来衡量民粹主义言论，通过结合字典和主题模型等不同的定量文本分析工具来研究民粹主义言论对精英行为的影响，并在两个调查实验中评估其对选民的影响。尽管其本身就是一种贡献，但为议会辩论中的民粹主义言论制定可靠的衡量标准也很重要，因为它是系统研究民粹主义言论如何影响议会和民主话语以及选民的先决条件，而这反过来又对于理解民粹主义如何改变欧洲政治至关重要。