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 ...

Causal inference has transformed empirical political science. Experiments, natural experiments, instrumental variables, difference-in-differences designs, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...