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 …

We propose and explore the possibility that language models can be studied as effective
proxies for specific human subpopulations in social science research. Practical and …

I use readability scores to test if referees and/or editors apply higher standards to women's
writing in academic peer review. I find:(i) female-authored papers are 1-6 percent better …

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world From social
media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers …

This paper studies the use of emotion and reason in political discourse. Adopting
computational-linguistics techniques to construct a validated text-based scale, we measure …

Existing approaches to estimating politicians' latent positions along specific dimensions
often fail when relevant data is limited. We leverage the embedded knowledge in generative …

The public politicisation of European integration indicates a growing demand for public
communication of supranational politics. This paper highlights that the messages the …

Digital literacy is receiving increased scholarly attention as a potential explanatory factor in
the spread of misinformation and other online pathologies. As a concept, however, it …

While texts are the primary carriers of information for government decision making, few
studies have examined the role of textual complexity in government-citizen communication …

Presidents' unilateral sway over policy is of global concern to scholars, practitioners and the
general public. While pending actions provoke media speculation about how much authority …