Research Collection Report Constructing Europe’s Borders Project: Codebook Author(s): Bélanger, Marie-Ève; Mikalayeva, Liudmila; Schimmelfennig, Frank Publication Date: 2020-05-13 Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000414771 Rights / License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International This page was generated automatically upon download from the ETH Zurich Research Collection. For more information please consult the Terms of use. ETH Library Constructing Europe's Borders: Membership Discourses and European Integration Funded by: The Swiss National Science Foundation Project number: 1001A_172558 Institution: ETH Zürich Research Centre: Centre for Comparative an International Studies Coordinators: Frank SCHIMMELFENNIG Marie-Eve BELANGER CODEBOOK For the analysis of parliamentary discourses and actors Authors: Marie-Eve BELANGER Liudmila MIKALAYEVA Frank SCHIMMELFENNIG Date: 13 May 2020 Cite this document: Bélanger, M-E, Liudmila Mikalayeva, Frank Schimmelfennig. 2020. “Constructing Europe’s Borders Project: Codebook”. ETH Research Collection. ETH Zürich. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000414771 For helpful comments on previous versions of the codebook, we thank, Nicole Olszewska and Alper Baysan. For coding assistance, we thank Alper Baysan, Cristina Gherasimov, Léa Iaru, Kata Isenring-Szabo, Johann Krümmel, Jelena Mihajlovic, Nadia Mondini, Nicole Olszewska, Sina Özdemir, Müge Özlütiras, Marina Petrossian, Susanna Sargsyan, Ioannis Vergioglou and Dominik Wiedmann. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................................................................. 3 INTRODUCTION: THE “EUROPE’S BORDERS” PROJECT .................................................................................................. 4 1 TRANSCRIPTS OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES ....................................................................................................... 5 1.1 WHICH TRANSCRIPTS? ............................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 WHICH PARTS OF THE TRANSCRIPT? ............................................................................................................................. 5 1.3 HOW TO APPROACH THE TRANSCRIPT? ......................................................................................................................... 5 2 TWO-STEP CODING PROCESS: IDENTIFYING STATEMENTS AND CODING .............................................................. 6 2.1 IDENTIFYING STATEMENTS.......................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 CODING STATEMENTS ............................................................................................................................................... 7 3 CATEGORIES ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 3.1 SETTING: DATE, PARLIAMENT, TYPE OF SESSION ............................................................................................................ 8 Date ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Parliament ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Type ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 3.2 ACTOR: SPEAKER, TYPE, PARTY, ORIGIN ....................................................................................................................... 9 Name ............................................................................................................................................................... 9 Type ................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Party ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Origin .............................................................................................................................................................. 9 3.3 ISSUE: ORGANIZATION, COUNTRY ................................................................................................................................ 9 Organization ................................................................................................................................................... 9 Country ............................................................................................................................................................ 9 3.4 POSITION ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 3.5 KEYWORDS ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 4 CODE ALLOCATION .............................................................................................................................................. 10 4.1 CODING THE CATEGORY “PARLIAMENT” ..................................................................................................................... 11 4.2 CODING THE CATEGORY “TYPE” (SETTING).................................................................................................................. 11 4.3 CODING THE CATEGORY “PARTY” .............................................................................................................................. 12 4.4 CODING THE CATEGORY “TYPE” (ACTOR) ................................................................................................................... 12 4.5 CODING THE CATEGORY “ORIGIN” ............................................................................................................................. 12 4.6 CODING THE CATEGORY “ORGANIZATION” .................................................................................................................. 13 4.6.1. .......................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Definition of the values for the Category Organization ............................................................................................. 14 4.6.2 Informal Organizations ..................................................................................................................................... 16 4.7 CODING THE CATEGORY “COUNTRY” ......................................................................................................................... 17 Code 10 “General” ........................................................................................................................................ 18 4.7.2. Groups of countries .......................................................................................................................................... 19 4.8 CODING THE CATEGORY “POSITION” ......................................................................................................................... 19 For (ID 1) ....................................................................................................................................................... 19 Conditional (ID 0) .......................................................................................................................................... 19 Against (ID 2) ................................................................................................................................................ 20 4.8.3.1 Proximity of contradictory statements .................................................................................................................. 20 4.9 CODING THE CATEGORY “KEYWORDS” ....................................................................................................................... 20 1 What is a keyword? ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Why do we code keywords and how will we use them? ............................................................................... 21 Examples of keywords in the text.................................................................................................................. 21 General rules to code keywords .................................................................................................................... 21 4.10 TECHNICAL NOTES ON CODING ................................................................................................................................. 22 5 AMBIGUITIES ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 5.1 SOURCES OF AMBIGUITY .........................................................................................................................................