Vol. 12 No. 2

Articles

• Promises and pitfalls of using LLMs to identify actor stances in political discourse

  Viviane Walker, Mario Angst (Author)

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• Different interpretations of ‘directionality’ in innovation policyand sustainability transitionsliteratures suggest the need for distinguishingbetweenactors‘givingdirection’contributing totransformative change,and ‘systemic directionality’as a feature oftransformative change required to address urgentsocietal challenges. In a firststep towards bridging these understandings, we emphasize the process-orientedandpolitical nature of directionality, andmobilizepolitical theory to conceptualizethe politics of directionality. The questions:‘who giveswhich direction, where, how,whenand why’are employed to discussthe politics of directionalityinan integrative literature reviewoffive policy process frameworks: Multiple Streams Framework (MSF), Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET), Policy Feedback Theory (PFT), Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF). We present aconceptual framework integratinginsights from policy process frameworksfor conceptualizing the politicsof directionalityas involving both actorsgiving direction andthesystemic directionalityof transformative change

  Sabine de Graaff, Iris Wanzenboeck, koen frenken (Author)

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• Policy Influence and Influencers Online and Off — A. Kotkaniemi (2025)SocArXiv preprint OSF

  Anniina Kotkaniemi, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, Ted Hsuan Yun Chen (Author)

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• Information Filtering Networks: Theoretical Foundations, Generative Methodologies, and Real-World Applications

  Tomaso Aste (Author)

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• Politics and polarization on Bluesky

  Ali Salloum, Dorian Quelle, Letizia Iannucci, Alexandre Bovet, Mikko Kivelä (Author)

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• POW: Political Overton Windows of Large Language Models

  Leif Azzopardi, Yashar Moshfeghi (Author)

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• A Large-Scale Simulation on Large Language Models for Decision-Making in Political Science

  Chenxiao Yu, Jinyi Ye, Yuangang Li, Zheng Li, Emilio Ferrara, Xiyang Hu, Yue Zhao (Author)

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• KOKKAI DOC: An LLM-driven framework for scaling parliamentary representatives

  Ken Kato, Christopher Cochrane (Author)

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• Benchmarking LLMs for Political Science: A United Nations Perspective

  Yueqing Liang, Liangwei Yang, Chen Wang, Congying Xia, Rui Meng, Xiongxiao Xu, Haoran Wang, Ali Payani, Kai Shu (Author)

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• Computational Measurement of Political Positions: A Review of Text-Based Ideal Point Estimation Algorithms

  Patrick Parschan, Charlott Jakob (Author)

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