| Title |
Using parliamentary corpora to study political agenda: attention to human rights in Lithuanian parliament in 2020-2021 |
| Authors |
Morkevičius, Vaidas ; Valentinavičius, Vytautas ; Žvaliauskas, Giedrius ; Briedienė, Monika |
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| Is Part of |
CEUR workshop proceedings: proceedings of the 27th international conference on information society and university studies (IVUS 2022), Kaunas, Lithuania, May 12, 2022 / edited by: T. Krilavičius, A. Lopata, I. Veitaitė, M. Woźniak, Ch. Napoli, D. Kalinauskaitė.. Aachen : CEUR-WS. 2022, vol. 3611, p. 124-131.. ISSN 1613-0073 |
| Keywords [eng] |
parliamentruy debates ; human rights ; political agenda ; Lithuanian parliament |
| Abstract [eng] |
In this paper we demonstrate how corpora of parliamentaiy debate transcripts can be used for studying changes of political agenda. Employing dictionaiy-based computerized content analysis we investigated changing attention to the topic of human rights in the Lithuanian Parliament in the period of 2020-2021. Results of the analysis revealed that attention to the topic of human rights during the analysed period increased considerably when two focusing events - fraudulent elections in Belams in 2020 and the influx of lnigrants from Belarns to Lithuania in 2021 - took place and became the focus of public debates. The study also showed that changing public political prio1ities resulting in electoral success of pruties mobilising support for those newly emerging pri01ities had effect on increasing advocacy of human rights topic on the parliamantery agenda by representatives of the Freedom Party which entered the Seimas with the explicit agenda of advocating for radical changes in public policy related to human rights. |
| Published |
Aachen : CEUR-WS |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2022 |
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