Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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A systematic literature review of hate speech identification on Arabic Twitter data: research challenges and future directions. [PDF]
Alhazmi A +4 more
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Safe to Speak, Teach, and Research? Experiences of Reprisals in Danish Academia
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Liv Bjerre +6 more
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The choice argument for proportional representation
Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
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Decoding Digital Discourse Through Multimodal Text and Image Machine Learning Models to Classify Sentiment and Detect Hate Speech in Race- and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Community-Related Posts on Social Media: Quantitative Study. [PDF]
Nguyen TT +10 more
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Can riots represent? A democratic theory
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
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Detection of hate: speech tweets based convolutional neural network and machine learning algorithms.
Sennary HA +3 more
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The electoral politics of immigration and crime
Abstract Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes and voting behavior due to educational realignment.
Jeyhun Alizade
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A normalization model for repeated letters in social media hate speech text based on rules and spelling correction. [PDF]
Mansur Z, Omar N, Tiun S, Alshari EM.
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Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) offer scalable alternatives to human experts when analyzing political texts for meaning, using natural language understanding (NLU). Qualitative NLU methods relying on human experts are severely limited by cost and scalability.
Kenneth Benoit +4 more
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