Every year at the United Nations (UN), member states deliver statements during the General
Debate (GD) discussing major issues in world politics. These speeches provide invaluable …

Existing approaches to measuring political disagreement from text data perform poorly
except when applied to narrowly selected texts discussing the same issues and written in …

Saliency approaches derive from the basic idea that political parties define their policies by
emphasising certain topics more than others, particularly in public documents and debates …

Comparative scholars of legislative politics continue to face the challenge of measuring a
key theoretical concept: conflict at the level of legislative bills. We address this challenge …

Political scientists can rely on a long tradition of applying unsupervised measurement
models to estimate ideology and preferences from texts. However, in practice the hope that …

Intra-party politics has long been neglected due to lacking data sources. While we have a
good understanding of the dynamics of ideological competition between parties, we know …

We scale theoretical/ideological positions of economic research institutes over debates.
Using only parts of German research institutes' business cycle reports that deal with …

When new parties enter parliament, they pose challenges to the established actors. Not only
do they represent ideological niches. They also present themselves as alternatives to the …

Scholars often use voting data to estimate central bankers' policy preferences but consensus
voting is commonplace. To get around this, we combine topic-based text analysis and …

Manual annotation of the policy content of political texts forms the basis for one of the most
widely used empirical measures in comparative politics: left-right policy positions. Bridging …