Data notes in political science journals

Some political science journals now publish a dedicated article type for data. These publications — often referred as Data Notes bu the terminology does vary across journals — serve to highlight new datasets, document their construction, and support data sharing within the research community. For instance, Electoral Studies describes their data notes as follows: These … are designed to promote, describe, and demonstrate the potential of data sources that could interest Electoral Studies readers.

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Twitter data in R

Update (November 2024): Since the publication of this blogpost, Twitter has revised its API access policies, and it is no longer freely accessible in the same way it once was. As a result, some of the workshop slides are now out of date. Slides | All course materials Earlier this month, I taught my two-day course on working with Twitter data in R, at the University of Lucerne. This was part of a Master’s Programme in Computational Social Science, LUMACSS.

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Latest publications

  • Pasi Pohjolainen, Iida Kukkonen, Pekka Jokinen, Wouter Poortinga, Charles Adedayo Ogunbode, Gisela Böhm, Stephen Fisher, Resul Umit (2024) The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans' climate perceptions. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 37(2), 515–533. Abstract DOI  pdf
  • Resul Umit, Asimina Michailidou, Hans-Joerg Trenz (2024) Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: A comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1–18. Abstract DOI  pdf
  • Philip Cowley, Resul Umit (2023) Legislator dissent does not affect electoral outcomes. British Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 789–795. Abstract DOI  pdf code

Unpublished research

  • Resul Umit (2019) Unfulfilled winning expectations decrease voter satisfaction with democracy. Abstract DOI  pdf
  • Resul Umit, Melek Zağralı (2015) The Turkish repeat elections of November 2015. Abstract  pdf