Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

Text data has recently been used as evidence in estimating the political ideologies of individuals, including political elites and social media users. While inferences about people are often the intrinsic quantity of interest, we draw inspiration from open information extraction to identify a new task: inferring the political import of propositions like OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST. We present several ...

Recently there has been increasing interest in constructing general-purpose political opinion classifiers for applications in eRulemaking. This problem is generally modeled as a sentiment classification task in a new domain. However, the classification accuracy is not as good as that in other domains such as customer reviews. In this paper, we report the results of a series of experiments desig...

Politicians can bene…t by ensuring that public sector positions requiring political services are occupied by partisans. We study a model in which this political screening is achieved by varying the amount of required political services and associated compensation in otherwise similar positions. Past vote shares provide information on the population share of partisans, and we predict a U-shaped ...

Despite growing scholarship on the politics of sociotechnical transitions, role aparticularly relevant actor type – political parties has been largely overlooked. To address this gap, we examine party position change energy technologies and related policy instruments, analyze how these positions co-evolve with technological change. Based a novel dataset, map in Germany, France, United Kingdom, ...