World politics & "parapolitics 2006" : Computer-Assisted Text Analysis of International Media Headlines - Edition en anglais

Karl Van Meter

Mathilde de Saint Léger

Publié par L'Harmattan, le 01 juillet 2009

228 pages

Résumé

If political science is the study of politics and the use of political power as it presents itself on the public scene, "parapolitics" is the study of the use of political power that is not presented on the public scene. The term seems to have been coined by Prof. Peter Dale Scott of the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1970s. According to Scott, a former Canadian diplomat, poet and author, parapolitics is the study of the "real" use of political power, as opposed to the publicly avowed use of political power. In this work, the authors analyze world political and parapolitical headlines of 2006. This data set or corpus of texts consists of the "Timeline" section of each issue of the electronic journal, " Intelligence "