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SUMMARY:Mitchell centre Seminar series
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DESCRIPTION:James Hollway\nGeneva Graduate Institute\n\nMultimodal politi
 cal discourse dynamics and the curious case of the German nuclear policy
  pivot\n\nThe 2011 policy pivot of the German government\, from extendin
 g nuclear power plants terms to securing their shutdown for 2022\, canno
 t be explained without looking at how the German political discourse net
 work shifted in the months following Fukushima. This paper seeks to mode
 l and identify mechanisms that help explain how the two-mode network of 
 political actors’ support for claims developed. We collect mechanisms fr
 om literature on political discourse and discourse networks\, and extend
  homophily mechanisms to two-mode networks as ‘tertius’ effects. We then
  introduce and employ a multimodal extension of dynamic network actor mo
 dels to answer two questions key to how the discourse has evolved: which
  actors support claims more frequently\, and which claims they support. 
 Our results indicate that mechanisms vary according to the discursive ph
 ase\, but that powerful actors participate in the discourse more often\,
  and actors tend to support claims that have already found support by cr
 oss-party coalitions. These are the two most prominent mechanisms that h
 elp to explain the dramatic nuclear policy change in Germany after Fukus
 hima.
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LOCATION:G7\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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