Comparative analysis in political science examines political phenomena by juxtaposing cases or variables across units such as states, regions or periods. It encompasses a spectrum of methodological ...

Machine learning methods have transformed the study of political language by automating the extraction of meaning, sentiment and thematic structure from large text corpora. Supervised learning ...

Discussion of "alternative facts" has gained sad notoriety in US politics. Yet the question has been around much longer: How do people conduct political debates—is the focus more on facts or personal ...

In August 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdowns, George Floyd protests, and conspiracy theories that the entire U.S. electoral system was a sham, the University of Chicago political scientist John Mark Hansen ...