Argentina Policy Coalitions around Carem25

Research about policy coalitions in Argentina areound CAREM25

1. Mapping Discourse Coalitions in Twitter Debates on Nuclear Policy: A Study of Argentina's CAREM-25 Rubens Yanes [email protected] linkedin.com /in/rubensyanes/

2. Carem 25 Argentina’s Small Modular Reactor (SMR)

3. Purpose Identify the political coalitions involved in the public debate and assess the stability of the policy What ideas and actors provide support for this program ? Test whether Twitter is a suitable source to study coalitions and agenda setting

4. Discourse Network Analysis (DNA) DNA tracks public discourses and links actors through them, whether they are political alternatives or narratives, expressed at a specific moment in time or throughout the evolution of a public debate. DNA combines content analysis and social network analysis. Concept A Actor 1 Actor 2 Actor 1 Actor 2

5. Hypotheses

6. P e riod under study: 2010 – 2022 28,635 tweets, keyword ”Carem 25” User validation and categorization 1,537 verified users 3,993 tweets Content Analysis Policy Alternatives Features / Narratives Sentiment analysis 2006: Nuclear Plan 2014: Start construction 2015-2019 2019-2022

7. Circles: pro Triangles: against Colors Yellow: political organizations Blue: Federal Government Celeste: Gob Provincial green: NGOs Purple: Academics Magenta: Media Orange: Businesses Grey: International organizations 2010-2016 NIMBY phase

8. 2017-2019 Realignment of forces Circles: pro Triangles: against Colors Yellow: political organizations Blue: Federal Government Celeste: Gob Provincial green: NGOs Purple: Academics Magenta: Media Orange: Businesses Grey: International organizations

9. 2017-2019 Realignment of forces Circles: pro Triangles: against Colors Yellow: political organizations Blue: Federal Government Celeste: Gob Provincial green: NGOs Purple: Academics Magenta: Media Orange: Businesses Grey: International organizations

10. 2019-2022 Majoritarian Support Circles: pro Triangles: against Colors Yellow: political organizations Blue: Federal Government Celeste: Gob Provincial green: NGOs Purple: Academics Magenta: Media Orange: Businesses Grey: International organizations

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