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2026 Using Large Language Models to Analyze Political Texts Through Natural Language Understanding
2026 Measuring issue salience for political parties using LLMs
2025 Forging The Future: How AI is rewriting the rules of knowledge, expertise, and practice
2024 AI and Data Science for Public Policy
2022 Scaling hand-coded political texts to learn more about left-right policy content
2019 Measuring and Explaining Political Sophistication Through Textual Complexity
2018 Fast, Consistent Tokenization of Natural Language Text
2018 quanteda: An R package for the quantitative analysis of textual data
2017 Estimating Intra-Party Preferences: Comparing Speeches to Votes
2017 Text analysis in R
2017 Predicting the Brexit Vote by Tracking and Classifying Public Opinion Using Twitter Data
2016 Crowd-Sourced Text Analysis: Reproducible and Agile Production of Political Data
2016 Social Media and Political Communication in the 2014 Elections to the European Parliament
2015 The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent During Economic Crisis
2015 The Basic Arithmetic of Legislative Decisions
2013 Validating Estimates of Latent Traits From Textual Data Using Human Judgment as a Benchmark
2012 Coder Reliability and Misclassification in the Human Coding of Party Manifestos
2012 Policy Positioning in the European Parliament
2012 The Dimensionality Of Political Space: Epistemological And Methodological Considerations
2012 How to scale coded text units without bias: A response to Gemenis
2012 Natural Sentences as Valid Units for Coded Political Texts
2011 Scaling Policy Preferences From Coded Political Texts
2010 Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament
2010 Incumbent and Challenger Campaign Spending Effects in Proportional Electoral Systems: The Irish Elections of 2002
2009 Irish Political Parties and Policy Stances on European Integration
2009 Presidents, Parties And Policy Competition
2009 Challenges for estimating policy preferences: Announcing an open access archive of political documents
2009 Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions
2009 A Relative Impact Ranking of Political Studies In Ireland
2008 The Campaign Value of Incumbency: A New Solution to the Puzzle of Less Effective Incumbent Spending
2008 Compared to What? A Comment on ‘A Robust Transformation Procedure for Interpreting Political Text’ by Martin and Vanberg
2007 Party Groups and Policy Positions in the European Parliament
2007 Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis
2007 Benchmarks for Text Analysis: A Reply to Budge and Pennings
2007 Electoral Laws as Political Consequences: Explaining the Origins and Change of Electoral Institutions
2007 Le changement des systèmes partisans et la transformation des espaces politiques
2006 Voter Strategies with Restricted Choice Menus
2006 Policy Competition in the 2002 French Legislative and Presidential Elections
2006 Duverger’s Law and the Study of Electoral Systems
2005 Measuring National Delegate Positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe Using Computerized Wordscoring
2005 Estimating Party Policy Positions: Japan in Comparative Context
2005 Mapping the Irish Policy Space: Voter and Party Spaces in Preferential Elections
2004 Institutional Change and Persistence: The Evolution of Poland’s Electoral System 1989-2001
2004 Models of Electoral System Change
2003 Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data
2003 The Evolution of Party Systems Between Elections
2003 Randomized Treatment Study of Inosiplex Versus Combined Inosiplex and Intraventricular Interferon-α
2003 For A Few Euros More: Campaign Spending Effects in the Irish Local Elections of 1999
2003 Estimating Irish Party Positions Using Computer Wordscoring: The 2002 Elections
2003 Campaign Spending in the Local Government Elections of 1999
2002 Like Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Hungarian Elections of 2002
2002 Locating TDs in Policy Spaces: Wordscoring Dáil Speeches
2002 The Endogeneity Problem in Electoral Studies: A Critical Reexamination of Duverger’s Mechanical Effect
2001 Institutional Choice in New Democracies: Bargaining Over Hungary’s 1989 Electoral Law
2001 District Magnitude, Electoral Formula, and the Number of Parties
2000 Which Electoral Formula is the Most Proportional? A New Look with New Evidence
1996 Democracies Really Are More Pacific (In General): Reexamining Regime Type and War Involvement
1996 Hungary’s Two-Vote Electoral System
1996 A Preview of EI and EzI: Programs for Ecological Inference