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This study aims to reveal the advantages, potentials and analytical value of multiple correspondence analysis, which is one of the statistical methods used in the analysis of categorical variables, for political party literature in Turkey. In this study, Bourdieu’s opinions, who has a major role on dissemination of the technique within the social sciences, relevant literature and an auto-analysis that builds upon the prior uses of the technique by the author has been utilized. The technique provides researchers with different levels of advantages. First, it offers the opportunity to make very economical interpretations from big data sets. Second, through this technique, empirical individuals in everyday life can be constructed as epistemic individuals with the defined qualities in the analysis. Third, the technique offers a relatively easy use, as it does not require any a priori theory, model, or hypotheses between variables (and their categories). Fourth, it can provide a statistical basis for case selection for micro-level ethnographic studies. To conclude, for all these reasons, multiple correspondence analysis technique, which is almost never used in political parties research in Turkey, is suggested as an original statistical method that researchers can use.

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