Authoritarian Politics: Trends and Debates

Supplementary Appendix to “Contracting on Violence: Authoritarian Repression and Military Intervention in Politics”

Politics and Humanitarian Aid: Debates, Dilemmas and Dissension - HPG Reports 10 - Research reports and studies

The Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute is Europe's leading team of independent policy researchers dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice in response to conflict, instability and disasters. Photocopies of all or part of this publication may be made providing that the source is acknowledged. Requests for the commercial reproduction of HPG material sho...

Press, Politics and the ‘Police and Public’ Debates in Late 1920s Britain

Complex Politics: A Quantitative Semantic and Topological Analysis of UK House of Commons Debates

This study is a first, exploratory attempt to use quantitative semantics techniques and topological analysis to analyze systemic patterns arising in a complex political system. In particular, we use a rich data set covering all speeches and debates in the UK House of Commons between 1975 and 2014. By the use of dynamic topic modeling (DTM) and topological data analysis (TDA) we show that both m...

Law, ethics, and public health in the vaccination debates: politics of the measles outbreak.