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 ...

News coverage of the 2024 election season has often centered on how partisan division has affected our politics. But a new analysis shows that political polarization also poses significant health ...

Purdue’s innovative Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) is an accessible, skills-focused master’s designed to meet the needs of professionals who have some background in data science and want to ...

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 ...

Independent analysis of Ethiopia's 2026 elections: supermajority outcomes, democratic challenges, and governance.

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 ...