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Quantitative Narrative Analysis
Quantitative Narrative Analysis focuses on the following issues: 1. the fundamental features of narrative (as a specific type of text genre with certain invariant linguistic properties); 2. how the invariant properties of narrative can be used to structure narrative information in ways that basic qualitative information can then be analyzed quantitatively (story grammars, or Subject-Action-Object and respective modifiers, such as Time and Space of Action); 3. reliability (and how the computer and linguistic framework of the approach greatly increase data reliability); 4. data analysis (the book does not focus on general problems of data analysis, it will show how textual data can be analyzed with numbers).
From Words to Numbers
This book offers a a way to analyze narrative data in socio-historical research.
New Methods for Social History
This 1999 collection introduces some of the most interesting new research methods for social historians.
Explaining Social Processes
Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and social science, Charles Tilly's newest book offers innovative methods and approaches that are applicable in a wide range of disciplines: politics, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, and more. The book covers approaches to analysis ranging from interpersonal exchanges to world-historical changes-economic, political, and social. He shows how a thoroughgoing relational account of social processes, coupled with the careful identification of causal mechanisms, illuminates variation and change in the ways people live at the small scale and the large.
Contentious Performances
The book analyzes popular collective struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. Tilly presents a method for describing contentious events, shows how this method yields superior explanations of contentious events, and applies this method to such events in Great Britain from 1758 to 1834.
Narrative Analysis, Quantitative
The entry describes a social science methodological approach to narrative texts: Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA). The approach, introduced by Roberto Franzosi in the 1980s, is based on an understanding of narrative that arches back to classical rhetoric and to 20th-century developments in narratology. The theoretical underpinnings of the technique, combined with the use of rewrite rules setup in a computer environment (relational database management systems), make QNA a rigorous and powerful tool of data collection and data analysis. Compared to other, traditional social science approaches to texts - namely, content analysis, frame analysis, and protest event analysis - QNA has several advantages, in terms of methodological rigor and data reliability. But, like all manual, computer-assisted approaches to texts, QNA is very labor intensive and therefore expensive. The entry shows how new automatic computational tools of textual analysis developed in the field of Natural Language Processing hold the promise of making obsolete QNA and other textual approaches.
Mobilizing on the Extreme Right
Mobilizing on the Extreme Right compares the extreme right in Italy, Germany, and the United States using concepts and methods developed in social movement studies. While the political parties on the right are well-studied this is the first volume to address, in comparative perspective, the social movement organizations on the extreme right
Politics After Neoliberalism
Richard Snyder's study offers an analysis of politics after neoliberalism.
Power in Movement
Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organisational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasises the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure.
Subversive Institutions
From 1989 to 1992, all of the socialist dictatorships in Europe (including the Soviet Union) collapsed, as did the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia dismembered, and the Cold War international order came to an abrupt end. Based on a series of controlled comparisons among regimes and states, Valerie Bunce argues in this book that two factors account for these remarkable developments: the institutional design of socialism as a regime, a state, and a bloc, and the rapid expansion during the 1980s of opportunities for domestic and international change. When combined, institutions and opportunities explain not just when, how, and why these regimes and states disintegrated, but also some of the most puzzling features of these developments - why, for example, the collapse of socialism was largely peaceful and why Yugoslavia, but not the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia, disintegrated through war.
