Territorial identities in Dutch politics. Conflicting frames in the 2023 electoral campaign.
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2024-08-05
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This master's thesis investigates how territorial identities are reflected in the political discourse during the 2023 Dutch parliamentary elections. The central research question is: ‘How are territorial identities reflected in the political discourse during the electoral campaign leading up to the Dutch parliamentary elections of November 2023?’. The study employs Discourse Network Analysis (DNA), a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative content analysis with network analysis, to answer this research question. The research focuses on nine political parties, namely PVV, Groenlinks-PvdA, VVD, NSC, D66, BBB, SP, CDA, and Volt, representing the vast majority of the Dutch Second Chamber.
The study identifies frames and concepts related to seven types of politicised territorial identities, namely supranational, national, local, cosmopolitan, and glocal identity, ‘apolides’, and borderland identity. Results indicate that politicised cosmopolitan and national identities are particularly prominent in the political discourse, with the PVV and BBB showing relatively strong national and local identities, while GroenLinks-PvdA, D66, CDA, and Volt showed a strong cosmopolitan identity. The study also reveals how different identities and the according frames and concepts are intertwined. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of territorial identity in Dutch politics and provide a foundation for future research on territorial identity discourses in different political contexts.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen