Research

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The ParlText database supports a wide range of research questions on legislative behaviour, party politics, and computational text analysis. The growing list below highlights peer-reviewed contributions that build on the corpus.

  1. Gessler, T. (2025). How opposition parties politicize democracy during autocratization. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 10(4), 34–58. DOI: 10.17356/ieejsp.v10i4.1245
  2. Sebők, M., Molnár, C., & Takács, A. (2025). Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe: Introducing the ParlText CEE Database of Speeches, Bills, and Laws. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 10(4), 106–125. DOI: 10.17356/ieejsp.v10i4.1327
  3. Sebők, M., Proksch, S.-O., Rauh, C., Visnovitz, P., Balázs, G., & Schwalbach, J. (2023). Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article. International Political Science Review, 46(1), 18–39. DOI: 10.1177/01925121231199904

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