The project seeks to carry out a methodical in-depth analysis of greatly under-researched fundamental transformations of Czech and Slovenian national parliaments in the age of Europeanisation (1993-2004), addressing entangled histories of deliberative decision-making and political representation. Such transnational history approach seeks to explore the mutual relationship between the EU and nation states, as imagined, constructed, and performed in politics. This investigation will provide a better understanding of key political history issues, necessary to interpret and understand the transformations and comparative challenges the EU is recently facing such are the rise of previously unpopular political parties and movements, the decline of others, or the rise of EU-skeptic ideas. By addressing the hitherto untapped analytical potential of Europeanisation as a unique tool for comparative analysis, the project will not only fill in the gaps of the scientific field of parliamentary studies, but as well provide a selection of reliable multidisciplinary approaches combining historiographical analysis with Digital Humanities methods, and produce complex interpretative models for a comparative model to further study Europeanisation, which, better understood and distinguished more clearly from other supranational phenomena, will improve the political debate around the EU as a common project. approaches combining historiographical analysis with Digital Humanities methods, and produce complex interpretative models for a comparative model to further study Europeanisation, which, better understood and distinguished more clearly from other supranational phenomena, will improve the political debate around the EU as a common project.
Project launch; collection of data sources; automated transcription; preparation of sub-corpora for corpus analysis; discussion of research questions and methods, including feedback; then organization of project-specific corpora and implementation of an interdisciplinary workshop.
Identification of concepts and analysis (Years 1–2)
Datasets composed of key themes concerning Europe; identification of vocabulary, key moments, and shifts; corpus-linguistic analysis; interpretation of positions, political priorities, concepts, and language used from a comparative perspective; preparation of the first article for a SCOPUS-indexed journal and participation in an international conference.
Actors (Years 2–3)
Identification of key actors from national institutions and the EU; analysis of sources and interviews; interpretation of shifts in positions, their timing, and their impact; then publication of the second article in a SCOPUS-indexed journal and participation in an international conference.
Analysis of procedures, communication, public opinion, and the media context (Years 2–3)
Analysis, characterization, and contextualization of the working process in parliament; mapping of communication channels between parties and between parties and the public; mapping and understanding of the political process and debate on national priorities; discourse in the media and political sphere; and editing of a special issue of a SCOPUS-indexed journal.
Awareness-raising and dissemination of information (Years 1–3)
Project website; dissemination strategy aimed at raising awareness of the project and the challenges facing representative democracy; a dissemination strategy consisting of publications, academic events, and lectures; project website (Year 1); project report in the EuParl.net Newsletter (Year 2); popular science article/interview in a public-facing science-oriented online medium (Year 3); international conference (Year 3); monographic publication (Year 3); comparative methodological and interpretative model (Year 3).
