Polimetrics

A.A. 2024/2025
6
Crediti massimi
40
Ore totali
SSD
SPS/04
Lingua
Inglese
Obiettivi formativi
This course aims to teach the basics of party competition, shedding light on different theories and strategies (ranging from the spatial theory of voting, to theories on issue competition, valence politics, populism, negative campaigning, and so on). In addition, students will learn the main techniques (manual or automated) that allow to measure political outcomes, with a focus on estimating the positions of political actors. With respect to this, peculiar attention will be devoted to social media as a source of data.
Risultati apprendimento attesi
At the end of the course, students will be able to analyze and interpret strategies used by political parties to compete in an election campaign. Thanks to lab lectures, attending students will learn how to use existing sources of data about political parties; they will also get familiar with the basics of text analysis, learning how to perform simple analyses using scaling techniques, topic models and sentiment analysis. By doing that, they will also be able to develop and test simple and coherent research questions concerning everyday political competition.
Corso singolo

Questo insegnamento può essere seguito come corso singolo.

Programma e organizzazione didattica

Edizione unica

Responsabile
Periodo
Terzo trimestre

Programma
A) Theories of party competition
Spatial theory of voting
Issue competition & issue ownership
Valence competition
Negative campaigning
Nichness & populism
Ambiguity & broad appeal strategy
Intra-party politics
Voters' perceptions
Other political actors

B) Measuring political outcomes & positions of political actors
Hand-coding
Comparative Manifesto Project
Expert surveys
Text-as-data
Scaling techniques
Topic models
Sentiment analysis & Dictionary methods
Social media data
Prerequisiti
Statistics and Political Science
Metodi didattici
Mixture of theoretical lectures in class + empirical hands-on lectures in lab (after the end of the covid emergency) + research project "brainstorming sessions"
Materiale di riferimento
The required readings will be made available on the website of the course (https://andreaceron.com/teaching) and on ARIEL
Modalità di verifica dell’apprendimento e criteri di valutazione
Non-attending students: oral exam

Attending students: class attendance and active participation, particularly on the "online forum" and during the "brainstorming sessions" + oral exam (or written exam with open-ended & multiple-choice questions) + short research paper (in group)
SPS/04 - SCIENZA POLITICA - CFU: 6
Lezioni: 40 ore
Docenti: Carrara Paride, Ceron Andrea
Docente/i
Ricevimento:
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