The Primaries of United Russia 2016 in Central and Regional Russian Media: Thematic Analysis

Student: Mandrik Dmitriy

Supervisor: Ilya Musabirov

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

In this thesis, the political process of the 2016' primaries is studied. The research question can be formulated as follows: what the main topics were discussed in media during preliminary voting? Using the database Integrum, containing more than 10 thousand materials on the primaries in federal and regional media, primarily thematic modeling, the work will be a thematic map of the coverage of primaries, which sheds light on how they were described in federal and regional media.

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