Text has always been an important data source in political science. What has changed in
recent years is the feasibility of investigating large amounts of text quantitatively. The internet …

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explanation, including skepticism, covering law arguments, reconstructions of propensities …

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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 …

Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and social science, Charles Tilly's
newest book offers innovative methods and approaches that are applicable in a wide range …

This succinct yet comprehensive introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is geared
toward advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Cogently written, clearly …

Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties offers a distinctive, coherent account of social
processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel …

Previous methods of analyzing the substance of political attention have had to make several
restrictive assumptions or been prohibitively costly when applied to large‐scale political …

Examining the history, conceptual breadth, and recent trends in the study of foreign policy
analysis, it is clear that this subfield provides what may be the best conceptual connection to …

The increasing availability of digitized text presents enormous opportunities for social
scientists. Yet hand coding many blogs, speeches, government records, newspapers, or …