Redefining the Nation: Center-right Parties and Visible Minorities in Europe

Dear CPW participants, Thank you for reading my prospectus. I must warn you all that it is unfinished, and thus, unpolished. I look forward to any and all comments; however, I seek your collective wisdom on the following topics: 1. My current dependent variable for my statistical model is based on the Comparative Manifesto Project. However, I would like to test whether or not outreach occurred at a national level and/or regional level using content analysis of major and regional newspapers, which are available for most countries on Lexis-Nexis. The program Sim-Stat allows content analysis in all major European languages. I would like to code these articles based on emphasis on policies, organizational changes, as well as instances of counter-outreach (tough talk on immigration and racist rhetoric). 2. Is this advisable? Would you suggest running separate models with each of the above as dependent variable, or combining these codings as a single dependent variable? 3. Any advice on how to compress or eliminate my numerous hypotheses would be much appreciated.