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 …

Political actions and outcomes depend on people's preferences over candidates, policies,
and other politically relevant phenomena. For this reason, a great deal of political activity …

Public policy can be considered a design science. It involves identifying relevant problems,
selecting instruments to address the problem, developing institutions for managing the …

People increasingly visit online news sites not directly, but by following links on social
network sites. Drawing on news value theory and integrating theories about online identities …

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

Populist parties increasingly take a welfare chauvinistic position. They criticize mainstream
parties for cutting and slashing welfare at the expense of the 'native'population and to the …

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 …

Scholars estimating policy positions from political texts typically code words or sentences
and then build left‐right policy scales based on the relative frequencies of text units coded …

Why do politicians and civil servants commission research and what use do they make of it
in policymaking? The received wisdom is that research contributes to improving government …

We explore the impact of institutional design on the distribution of changes in outputs of
governmental processes in the United States, Belgium, and Denmark. Using comprehensive …