Various scholars have recently argued that niche parties are to be distinguished from
mainstream parties, in particular because the two party types differ in their programmes …

When it comes to textual data, the fields of political science and international relations face a
genuine embarrassment of riches. Never before has so much text been so readily available …

Collaborative Qualitative Analysis (CQA) can enhance qualitative analysis rigor and depth
by incorporating varied viewpoints. Nevertheless, ensuring a rigorous CQA procedure itself …

This book examines VOX, the first major and electorally successful populist radical right-
wing party to emerge in Spain since the death of General Franco, and the restoration of …

Abstract GDELT—Global Data on Events, Location and Tone—is a new CAMEO-coded data
set containing more than 200-million geolocated events with global coverage for 1979 to the …

Politics and political conflict often occur in the written and spoken word. Scholars have long
recognized this, but the massive costs of analyzing even moderately sized collections of …

Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though
this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining …

We explore how support for radical parties of both the left and right may be shaped by what
we call 'positional deprivation', where growth in income of individuals at a given point in the …

" Eight years after the Arab Spring there is still much debate over the link between Internet
technology and protest against authoritarian regimes. While the debate has advanced …

Advances in computer science and computational linguistics have yielded new, and faster,
computational approaches to structuring and analyzing textual data. These approaches …