We would like to thank the sponsors of our @ecpr.bsky.social #jointsession #workshop: thanks to the generous funding of the University of Bern's Digitalization Commission and the
@valpop-project.bsky.social, we could offer travel stipends to early career scholars from Asia and the Americas.
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.
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.
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 Check it out if you need to extract in particular familial relationships from scanned historical documents!
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.
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?
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.
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
Recap of the third day of our ecpr.bsky.social joint session workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks:
In the coming days, we will post further highlights of the workshop and update our Website. There, you will find relevant materials and our mailing list: www.autpol.net
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!
📷Many thanks to Kirill Solovev for taking pictures!
Mert Kılıç 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.
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.
@seraphinemaerz.bsky.social is presenting and giving a quick tutorial to the #quallmer R package at our at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.
Claudia Salas Gimenez shows how parties adjust their #election campaigns on #YouTube at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLM and #politicalnetworks.
Qian’ge 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!
@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.
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?
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 yesterday’s highlights:
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.
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.
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!
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!
Yesterday, our @ecpr.bsky.social joint session workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks started. #ecprjs26 Here is a recap of the first day:
📢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! 📢Check out our website: www.autpol.net/workshop
Meet the people behind the project: Franziska Barbara Keller, assistant professor at the University of Bern, is the principal investigator of our project. She specializes in comparative politics, political communication, and social network analysis, with a focus on China.
📢 Exciting news: Our Workshop at the @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSessions in Innsbruck on how to use Large Language Models (LLM) to gather and analyse political elite networks got accepted!📢
Check out our website for relevant materials and our mailing list: www.autpol.net
Our Paper "China Watchers" now officially appeared in the latest issue of PS Political Sciene & Politics (Volume 59 - Issue 1). If you have not read it already: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
Call for Papers: Do you study political networks and use AI-tools to gather the necessary data? Join our workshop in Innsbruck, April 7-10, 2026, and discuss your approach and findings with like-minded peers! Deadline for submissions is 10th of december. www.autpol.net/workshop