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 …

Spatial models are ubiquitous within political science. Whenever we confront spatial models
with data, we need valid and reliable ways to measure policy positions in political space. I …

The article examines the politicisation of immigration in Europe during the so-called
migration crisis. Based on original media data, it traces politicisation during national election …

Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though
this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining …

Over the last two decades, the relativist approach has significantly shaped debates about
the quality and rigour of qualitative research in sport and exercise psychology (SEP). In the …

The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in
over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a …

There is a growing interest in quantitative analysis of large corpora among the international
relations (IR) scholars, but many of them find it difficult to perform analysis consistently with …

Empirical social science often relies on data that are not observed in the field, but are
transformed into quantitative variables by expert researchers who analyze and interpret …

The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic
and political research. It is thus vital that their quality is established. The purpose of this book …

The Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) data are the most popular source for parties'
positions on the left–right and other ideological and policy dimensions. Over the past few …