While research design and methods may seem like a rather prosaic subject, it is an
important tool for understanding fascinating and important questions in the world, such as …

Why do young Muslim women radicalize and undertake high-risk political behaviors, and
what factors influence their sociopolitical transformation? The process of radicalization …

Corpus selection bias in international relations research presents an epistemological
problem: How do we know what we know? Most social science research in the field of text …

This paper offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the ways and extent to which the US
president and UK prime minister have securitized the Covid-19 pandemic in their public …

This article analyses the language authoritarian leaders use to legitimate their rule. It
examines the official speeches of autocrats in hegemonic regimes and compares them to …

Renewed efforts at empirically distinguishing between different forms of political regimes
leave out the cultural dimension. In this article, we demonstrate how modern computational …

During the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States, the coordination and
cooperation between the federal government and the states failed. American governors …

The paper introduces a deep‐learning model fine‐tuned for detecting authoritarian
discourse in political speeches. Set up as a regression problem with weak supervision logic …

As a populist leader, Hugo Chavez famously used emotionally charged populist rhetoric to
appeal to a broad base of poor and working-class Venezuelans. Was his choice of linguistic …

How international is political text-analysis research? In computational text analysis, corpus
selection skews heavily toward English-language sources and reflects a Western bias that …