Introduction: On the Compatibility between Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

In: Forum qualitative Sozialforschung: FQS = Forum: qualitative social research, Band 2, Heft 1

Abstract

In this article, I examine the possibility of using TURING's concept of "imitation games" to analyze political discourse. This poses the theoretical question of identity matching. It also poses a methodological question: Is it possible to distinguish, using only internal criteria, the political discourse of political actors that belong to two distinct categories? The effort to answer these theoretical and methodological questions highlights important common motives in quantitative and qualitative research.