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Kirill Melnikov finds that
#centrality
in the
#politicalnetwork
of
#Russian
#elites
protects them from getting dismissed in his presentation at the
ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop on
#LLMs
and
#politicalnetworks
.
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Can a
#Colombian
businessperson's network prevent them getting targeted by
#FARC
?
serayyalaz.bsky.social
explores the role of
#corporatenetworks
in
#collectiveaction
to deter
#rebelviolence
in her PhD project presented at our
ECPR.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop on
#LLMs
and
#politicalnetworks
.
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What do
#Swiss
voters find when they search for information on
#Swiss
political actors' stance in different
#initiatives
? Mykola Makhortykh presents research co-authored with Maryna Sydorova,
vihangjumle.bsky.social
and
vikavzt.bsky.social
at our
ECPR.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop.
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about 1 month ago
Felipe Perilla Reyes presents his
#python
package
#text2rel
at our
ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop. Check it out if you need to extract in particular familial relationships from scanned historical documents!
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about 1 month ago
Naim Bro demonstrates how you can create narratives about changing
#cleavages
among
#politicalelites
in
#Chile
and beyond (instead of outputs unintelligible to lay audiences) at our
ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop.
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about 1 month ago
Our team member Ivan Fomichev is expanding
#US
#rollcall
data back into time to construct historic
#covoting
networks at our
ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop on
#LLMs
and
#politicalnetworks
.
#Americanists
: what are the fun things you could do with that?
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about 1 month ago
Yifei Zhu and his coauthors Songpo Yang, Jiangnan Zhu and Junyan Jiang bring AI agents to the problem of using
#LLMs
and extracting
#politicalnetworks
at our
ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop.
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about 1 month ago
Curious about how
#German
#politicalelites
are connected to the country's
#economicelites
? Check out the project of Lisa Garbe, Yuequan Guo,
macartan.bsky.social
, and Lennard Naumann.
wzb.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
Mert KılıƧ is presenting on the influence of
#Turkey's
far-right parties' influence on the legislative agenda during our
@ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop on
#LLM
and
#politicalnetworks
.
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Spiral staircases, elevators and escalators: Scott Michael Hamilton presents his research on types of
#revolvingdoors
and their impact on careers in the defence sector and government in the
#EU
at our
@ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop.
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about 2 months ago
@seraphinemaerz.bsky.social
is presenting and giving a quick tutorial to the
#quallmer
R package at our at our
@ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop.
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Claudia Salas Gimenez shows how parties adjust their
#election
campaigns on
#YouTube
at our
@ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop on
#LLM
and
#politicalnetworks
.
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about 2 months ago
Qianāge Liu, our team member, is presenting her PhD project on
#corruption
#networks
in
#Nigeria
for the first time in public. A big thank you to all the participants of the
#LLMs
and
#politicalnetworks
@ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop for their feedback!
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about 2 months ago
@alexpiron.bsky.social
and
@ccrellin.bsky.social
use
#LLMs
on
#EU
aid data to construct the EU's Humanitarian Aid
#Network
to explain aid allocation at our
@ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop.
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about 2 months ago
Tu Ngo presents his ambitious PhD-project to extract
#politicalnetworks
of cabinet-level
#politicalelites
using
#LLMs
on
#wikipedia
and other data at our @ECPR
#JointSession
workshop. Will the shape of these networks constrain leaders in their decision to go to war?
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about 2 months ago
Yesterday was the second day of our
@ecpr.bsky.social
joint session workshop on
#LLMs
and
#politicalnetworks
, again with a marvelous view.
#ecprjs26
Here is a recap of yesterdayās highlights:
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about 1 month ago
Jorge Quesada Velazco collects feedback after his presentation of joint work with Tina Freyburg on the
#politicalnetworks
between
#Chinese
#economicelites
connected to internet providers in
#Africa
and internet shutdowns.
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about 1 month ago
seraphinemaerz.bsky.social
presents her research on how
#politicalelites
'
#illiberal
speech and its normalization co-occurs with democratic decline at our
ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop.
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about 2 months ago
The first of several papers on
#politicalnetworks
in
#China
at our workshop: Zheng Zhang and
@pierreflandry.bsky.social
dig into the historical
#CCP
Organizational Department data to give us more fine-grained career and position data of Chinese political elites.
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Clare Fenwick presents her approach to creating a database of bureaucratic-politico-business
#networks
to strengthen the rule of law for NET-ROL, so that you will be able to look up the ties your country's civil servants, regulators and political officeholders have.
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about 2 months ago
Felipe Perilla Reyes talks about how to extract family and marriage relationships from digitized historical sources at our European Consortium for Political Research
#JointSession
workshop on
#LLMs
and
#politicalnetworks
. Keep an eye open for his
#text2rel
package!
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about 2 months ago
Kirill Solovev presented his joint entity-relation extraction pipeline for the
@valpop-project.bsky.social
on the networks of populist political actors and public goods distribution. Very sophisticated and flexible method to extract politically relevant network ties from newspaper sources!
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about 1 month ago
It's a wrap! We ended our
@ecpr.bsky.social
#JointSession
workshop on using
#LLMs
to extract
#politicalnetworks
in the
#Bergisel
SKY restaurant on top of the iconic ski jump tower. Thank you all for attending and presenting your ideas, and all the valuable feedback and suggestions!
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š¢Exciting news: The program for our workshop at the @ECPR
#JointSessions
in Austria on how to use Large Language Models (LLM) to gather and analyse political elite networks is complete! š¢Check out our website:
www.autpol.net/workshop
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ā°Reminder: the deadline for submissions is December 10th - submit now!
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add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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Is there a gendergap among
#China
experts? This question arose as we collected our list of over 2000 China experts using a snowballing nomination process. Read our
#gender
breakdown to find out:
www.autpol.net/ps-china-wat...
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Check out this
@chinaobservers.eu
study by
@ivanakaraskova.bsky.social
and Emma Belmonte on the gender gap in who participates in European panels and podcasts on China:
chinaobservers.eu/where-have-a...
(in our own study, we had ca. 25% women globally, 39% in Europe:
doi.org/10.1017/S104...
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āWhere Have All the Girls Gone?ā Mapping Gender Gaps in Europeās China Expertise ā chinaobservers
The following article represents a first pilot attempt by the Women Insight on China (WiCH) initiative to audit gender representation in Europeās China discours
https://chinaobservers.eu/where-have-all-the-china-girls-gone/
6 months ago
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With Ho-fung Hung and
@profyangzhang.bsky.social
, I had the pleasure of discussing David McCourt's latest book at the
@socscihistory.bsky.social
conference at the
#PalmerHouse
(flashback to
@mpsa.bsky.social
times) in
#Chicago
. Highly recommended for anyone interested in
#Russia
or
#China
experts!
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The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989
The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 [McCourt, David M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989
https://www.amazon.com/End-Engagement-Americas-Experts-Strategy/dp/0197765211
6 months ago
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š¢ Do you study political
#networks
and use
#AI-tools
to gather the necessary data? Join our workshop at the
#ECPRJointSessions
in
#Innsbruck
, Austria, April 7-10, 2026, and discuss your approach and findings with like-minded peers! š¢
@ecpr.bsky.social
For more information:
www.autpol.net/workshop
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In the meantime we will continue to explore how opinion diffusion and homophily (the tendency to turn to experts similar to themselves), but also pressure from different governments and other powerful actors influences the conclusions that the China expert community reaches.
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And while weāre quite sure that we have managed to capture the core of this network in our article, we continue to reach out to China Watchers in the less represented professions and regions ā so if you receive an e-mail from us, please fill out our very short survey!
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Who are the experts who explain China to us? Weāve spent the last five years asking China experts to nominate other China experts until we had gathered more than 2000 individuals across the world and in a variety of professions:
doi.org/10.1017/S104...
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7 months ago
Check out PS's latest article by
@fbkeller.bsky.social
and
@expertsurvey.bsky.social
which highlights that while there is a diverse & global community of experts on Chinese politics, it is still dominated by US-based Academics. Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1017/S104...
#polisky
#academisky
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Curious about whether outsiders can ever know whatās going on behind closed doors among the most powerful people in China or Russia? Check out my project on the role of country experts and their networks in generating our knowledge of authoritarian regimes:
www.autpol.net
7 months ago
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