Research

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A growing list of peer-reviewed publications building on PLS and its predecessor ParlSpeech — covering legislative behaviour, parliamentary debate, computational text analysis, and democratic transparency.

  1. Schwalbach, J. (2024). Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data. Research & Politics, 11(3), 1–7. DOI: 10.1177/20531680241277466
  2. Sebők, M., Molnár, C., & Takács, A. (2024). Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe: Introducing the ParlText CEE Database of Speeches, Bills, and Laws. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 10(4). DOI: 10.17356/ieejsp.v10i4.1327
  3. Sebők, M., Proksch, S.-O., Rauh, C., Visnovitz, P., Balázs, G., & Schwalbach, J. (2023). Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article. International Political Science Review, advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/01925121231199904
  4. Kiss, R., & Sebők, M. (2022). Creating an enhanced infrastructure of parliamentary archives for better democratic transparency and legislative research: Report on the OPTED forum in the European Parliament (Brussels, 15 June 2022). International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, 2(2), 278–284. DOI: 10.1163/26668912-bja10053

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