Happy to share our latest paper, exploring how ideology and local climate risk shape MPs' speeches on climate change!

West European Politics@wepsocial.bsky.social · 4w ago

🌍 How do MPs talk about climate change? Analysing Italian MP's speeches, @paridecarrara.bsky.social, @paologambacciani.bsky.social & Luca Pinto find that the right stresses immediate local harm, the left long-term fixes. Where deadly storms hit, the gap widens. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

🔍 Do LLMs really understand political content, or do they just recognize party labels? Here's a striking example from my lecture materials on using LLMs in political science. 🧵

🎉 Online first: LLMs estimate party positions well. How about issue salience? @kenbenoit.bsky.social and Michael Laver show its harder: salience is inherently relative and more implicit. LLM's salience estimates are usable but track experts less closely than positions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

All good things must come to an end... 😊 Today, we wrapped up our workshop at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2026 in Innsbruck on “Blurring or Accident? Voluntary and Involuntary Sources of Ambiguous Party Positions and Their Consequences for Democracy.” #ecprjs26

🎉 Excited to share italyParlR — an open-source R package I built (with the help of Claude Code) to make Italian parliamentary data accessible to researchers, journalists, and data enthusiasts directly in R. github.com/paride92/ita... #OpenData #Italy #Parliament #DataScience #PoliticalScience

GitHub - paride92/italyParlR: An R package to access Italian Parliament open data via SPARQL, covering both the Camera dei Deputati and the Senato della Repubblica.

An R package to access Italian Parliament open data via SPARQL, covering both the Camera dei Deputati and the Senato della Repubblica. - paride92/italyParlR

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Discover @revojoe.bsky.social's picks for top #RStats CRAN pkgs released in February, including ✅ quallmer v0.3.0: Tools for AI-assisted qualitative data coding 🏥 nhanesdata v4.1.0: Access to NHANES data 📏 ggInterval v0.2.4: Visualize intervals w/ ggplot2 Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/Feb-20...

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Our new paper is out in Party Politics 🚨

Edoardo Viganò@eavigano.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 New paper out in Party Politics with Francesco Bromo, @paridecarrara.bsky.social, and @paologambacciani.bsky.social 📉 What happens when MPs lose their political incentives to be loyal to their party? 1/3 🔽

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF doi.org/10.31235/osf... We usually think that social identities precede preferences We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

Currently in FirstView: In “Political DEBATE: Efficient Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers for Political Text,” Michael Burnham, Kayla Kahn, Ryan Yang Wang, and Rachel Peng introduce DEBATE, a new open source foundation model for classifying political documents.

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

⏰ I’m happy to share that a major paper from my dissertation was published today (🔗 doi.org/10.1017/pan....) in Political Analysis. In the paper, Clemens Lechner and I conduct an extensive validation study on how to measure politicians’ public personality traits using computational text analysis!

NEW - Policlim: A Dataset of Climate Change Discourse in the Political Manifestos of Forty-Five Countries from 1990 to 2022 - https://cup.org/43zzLHc - @marysanford.bsky.social, Silvia Pianta, @nicolasschmid.bsky.social & Giorgio Musto #OpenAccess

Excited to share that as of October 6, I’ve joined the ERC-funded project “Welcoming Immigrants in Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine” (WICE) as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Latvia! #postdoc #polisci

📢 New Publication Alert! Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup 👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues

This paper investigates how spatial party competition shapes topical negative campaigning during Germany's 2021 federal election. We define topical negative campaigning as attacks on opponents that...

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You can fool some of the people some of the time, but as campaigns unfold, you can fool fewer of the people. New paper w/ Derek Beach and Jannik Fenger on framing effects out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

📣 MORAL APPEALS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 📣 New version of @twidmann.bsky.social and my working paper answering: * Have moral appeals increased over time? * Is the tendency to moralize ideologically patterned? * Are some topics consistently more moralized than others? osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

This is a great example of how the use of innovative data can bring us a step further with old research questions

West European Politics@wepsocial.bsky.social · 11mo ago

💥Online first: "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

📘 64.4 Using a 🇩🇪 dataset of attempted and successful exchanges in the German Bundestag 🏛️ (1990–2020), @eliaskoch.bsky.social & @ankuepfer.bsky.social finds MPs with opposing views seek debate more often, but there is rarely action😱 #Politics #Parliament Read more:

The politics of seeking and avoiding discourse in parliament

ELIAS KOCH, ANDREAS KÜPFER

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Check out this new blog post @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social and I wrote about using e-newsletters from Australian and UK Members of Parliament as data. #polisky

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣 Politicians communicate with their constituents every day, but what are they saying? 💻 @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social + @ozerthinking.bsky.social  examine new datasets which allow researchers to access every e-newsletter sent by MPs in Australia and the UK. 👉 bit.ly/3Vc2Ns4

Excited that my first PhD paper is published in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties!🎉 🧵 @wurthmann.bsky.social & I examine: Do They Know What They Represent? Parliamentary Candidates’ Perceptions of Their Own Party’s Positions 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

This Friday (12.09), we kick off the academic year at the #HotPoliticsLab with our very own (and recently appointed!) professor Gijs Schumacher! He will present his work on emotions and political behavior. Join us in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online via teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

The @crestumr.bsky.social AI & Social Sciences seminar resumes. Wednesday 17th at 5pm (CET), we will receive Pr. @emilymbender.bsky.social . She will talk about her latest book, *The AI Con*, co-authored with Dr. @alexhanna.bsky.social. Join us for what will certainly be a lively conversation.

Had an amazing time at the #SISP in Naples! Presenting my work and exchanging ideas was truly stimulating.

New POPPA article out in Party Politics by Andrej Zaslove, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social: “The State of Populism: Introducing the 2023 Wave of the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

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📢 Talk Announcement "ActiveTigger: A Collaborative Text Annotation Research Tool for Computational Social Sciences", by @emilienschultz.bsky.social , Etienne Ollion and Paul Girard. 📜 pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/ZHNCF7 📅 pydata.org/paris2025/schedule 🎟 pydata.org/paris2025/tickets

New publication, out in Political Analysis: There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually? I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.

Why do parties do what they do? Excited to share my 2nd dissertation paper, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social In the paper, I argue that parties seek internal unity and try to keep the team together: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/11 🧵

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