NLP

We introduce Named-Entity Recognition (NER), a semantic tool in Natural Language Processing (NLP), as an approach to extract leader names from a corpus of political text. Identifying references to named entities allows us to use the significant power …

**Named-Entity Recognition with Application to Foreign Leader Mentions in Congressional Speeches** - with Ines Rehbein (Mannheim), Nikolay Marinov (U Houston), Federico Nanni (Alan Turing Institute) We introduce Named-Entity Recognition (NER), a …

Contributor to Roundtable on: Islam, Politics, and Development

**Named-Entity Recognition with Application to Foreign Leader Mentions in Congressional Speeches** - with Ines Rehbein (Mannheim), Nikolay Marinov (U Houston), Federico Nanni (Alan Turing Institute) We introduce Named-Entity Recognition (NER), a …

Illiberal Communication and Election Intervention During the Refugee Crisis in Germany

**Accepted at Journal of Peace Reseach** Existing datasets of economic sanctions do not tend to take full advantage of government documents related to economic coercion. They may miss some economic sanctions, and do not capture some important details …

International relations research is animated by the notion that leaders matter. Existing approaches rely on proxies such as regime type to infer the importance of individuals. We propose a new measure, one based on leader mentions relative to country …

**Perspectives on Politics** Populist discourse - which tends to benefit anti-systemic parties - has been on the rise in the world’s democratic states. Powerful non-democratic states have both the means and the incentive to spread such discourse to …

We use this the crisis set off by the arrival of asylum-seekers in Germany to test a theory of the use of propaganda as a strategy by a non-democratic state against a democratic state. We argue that a non-democracy on a collision course with a …