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@dionstevers.bsky.social (with Charles Chang) presents first results from his WeChat experiment on why users chose to read pro-government content, wrapping up our 2nd #China panel at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast. #EPSS2026 #EPSS
The #Russia expert community is less centered on the #US than its #China expert counterpart and apparently less male-dominated. The first findings from our www.autpol.net / @expertsurvey.bsky.social project as presented at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast! #EPSS2026 #EPSS
@pierreflandry.bsky.social (with Zhang Zheng) on the importance of distinguishing the two Wang Lis when using #LLMs to build the ultimate biographical dataset of CCP officials. A great start to our 2nd #China panel at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference! #EPSS2026 #EPSS
Jérôme DOYON (withAaron Glasserman) shows how ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in the #PRC bureaucracy, and usually constrained to their specific region and specific parts of the bureaucracy. In our first #China panel at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast #EPSS2026
So why didn't the #CCP just repress all religious organizations when establishing the #PRC, painting this map all red? Read @chuyuliu.bsky.social and Howard Liu's working paper on the #CCP strategy of repression and cooptation to find out! @epssnet.bsky.social #EPSS2026
Xiaoyu Zhang, in joint research with @pierreflandry.bsky.social, discusses how the #PRC government secures its borders by building elaborate border posts to draw its population to these remote areas. The second paper at our #China panels at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference. #EPSS2026
Kirill Melnikov finds that #centrality in the #politicalnetwork of #Russian #elites protects them from getting dismissed in his presentation at the ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks.
Can a #Colombian businessperson's network prevent them getting targeted by #FARC? serayyalaz.bsky.social explores the role of #corporatenetworks in #collectiveaction to deter #rebelviolence in her PhD project presented at our ECPR.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks.
What do #Swiss voters find when they search for information on #Swiss political actors' stance in different #initiatives? Mykola Makhortykh presents research co-authored with Maryna Sydorova, vihangjumle.bsky.social and vikavzt.bsky.social at our ECPR.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
Felipe Perilla Reyes presents his #python package #text2rel at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. Check it out if you need to extract in particular familial relationships from scanned historical documents!
Naim Bro demonstrates how you can create narratives about changing #cleavages among #politicalelites in #Chile and beyond (instead of outputs unintelligible to lay audiences) at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
Our team member Ivan Fomichev is expanding #US #rollcall data back into time to construct historic #covoting networks at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks. #Americanists: what are the fun things you could do with that?
Yifei Zhu and his coauthors Songpo Yang, Jiangnan Zhu and Junyan Jiang bring AI agents to the problem of using #LLMs and extracting #politicalnetworks at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
Curious about how #German #politicalelites are connected to the country's #economicelites? Check out the project of Lisa Garbe, Yuequan Guo, macartan.bsky.social, and Lennard Naumann. wzb.bsky.social
Mert Kılıç is presenting on the influence of #Turkey's far-right parties' influence on the legislative agenda during our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLM and #politicalnetworks.
Spiral staircases, elevators and escalators: Scott Michael Hamilton presents his research on types of #revolvingdoors and their impact on careers in the defence sector and government in the #EU at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
@seraphinemaerz.bsky.social is presenting and giving a quick tutorial to the #quallmer R package at our at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
Claudia Salas Gimenez shows how parties adjust their #election campaigns on #YouTube at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLM and #politicalnetworks.
Qian’ge Liu, our team member, is presenting her PhD project on #corruption #networks in #Nigeria for the first time in public. A big thank you to all the participants of the #LLMs and #politicalnetworks @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop for their feedback!
@alexpiron.bsky.social and @ccrellin.bsky.social use #LLMs on #EU aid data to construct the EU's Humanitarian Aid #Network to explain aid allocation at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
Tu Ngo presents his ambitious PhD-project to extract #politicalnetworks of cabinet-level #politicalelites using #LLMs on #wikipedia and other data at our @ECPR #JointSession workshop. Will the shape of these networks constrain leaders in their decision to go to war?
Yesterday was the second day of our @ecpr.bsky.social joint session workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks, again with a marvelous view. #ecprjs26 Here is a recap of yesterday’s highlights:
Jorge Quesada Velazco collects feedback after his presentation of joint work with Tina Freyburg on the #politicalnetworks between #Chinese #economicelites connected to internet providers in #Africa and internet shutdowns.
seraphinemaerz.bsky.social presents her research on how #politicalelites' #illiberal speech and its normalization co-occurs with democratic decline at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
The first of several papers on #politicalnetworks in #China at our workshop: Zheng Zhang and @pierreflandry.bsky.social dig into the historical #CCP Organizational Department data to give us more fine-grained career and position data of Chinese political elites.
Clare Fenwick presents her approach to creating a database of bureaucratic-politico-business #networks to strengthen the rule of law for NET-ROL, so that you will be able to look up the ties your country's civil servants, regulators and political officeholders have.
Felipe Perilla Reyes talks about how to extract family and marriage relationships from digitized historical sources at our European Consortium for Political Research #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks. Keep an eye open for his #text2rel package!
Kirill Solovev presented his joint entity-relation extraction pipeline for the @valpop-project.bsky.social on the networks of populist political actors and public goods distribution. Very sophisticated and flexible method to extract politically relevant network ties from newspaper sources!
