The role of national parliaments in scrutinising their governments in European Union affairs
has been at the forefront of debates on democratic accountability in the European Union for …

Issue reframing occurs when parties, while addressing an issue, shift the frame toward other
policy domains. The literature has found that party issue framing affects how voters think …

Parties face a dilemma when confronted with shifting public opinion or changing rival
parties' issue positions: while ignoring ongoing changes could lead to electoral losses …

How parties compete by utilizing frames in the public debate is not well understood. A
widespread understanding is that parties tend to compete by talking past each other, ie …

Zusammenfassung 'Framing'is a communicative tool that is used to paint an issue in a
specific light. The notion that even minor changes in how 'calculating'politicians talk about …

First, however, I present a methodological study investigating how to elicit longer responses
to open-ended questions in web surveys. Advances in computational methods, together with …

This comparative chapter applies the threefold set of hypotheses presented in the theoretical
part to the comparative quantitative content analysis of climate policy discourse in the EU …

In the original formulation of nested analysis, one estimates a frequentist regression and
uses the results for nesting the qualitative analysis. Taking frequentist nested analysis as a …