This course by ParlLawSpeech demonstrates how the ParlLawSpeech dataset links bills, parliamentary speeches, and adopted laws for legislative analysis. It offers three tutorials, on debate frequency, bill changes, and debate comparisons, featuring reproducible R code for hands-on learning.
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OPTED Meteor offers a series of practical tutorials, including a Quick Tour through Meteor, Elegant Web-Scraping: WordPress API, and Scraping Telegram: Alternative News Sources. These resources guide users in efficient data collection and analysis from diverse online platforms, providing valuable skills for research and digital investigations.
The page introduces legislatoR, an R package by the Comparative Legislators Database (CLD) for accessing and analyzing legislator data. Users can retrieve demographic and political information, explore workflows like party seat distributions or birthplace mapping, and combine, analyze, and visualize data for research purposes.
The V-Dem Institute by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) offers the Resource Guide “Defending Democracy against Illiberal Challengers”, highlighting research and strategies to strengthen democratic resilience amid autocratization and declining democratic norms.
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This free, self-paced course by the Council of Europe (via HELP platform) trains electoral management bodies and stakeholders on engaging young voters. Using the Vote Outside the Box toolkit, it covers planning initiatives, raising awareness, and increasing youth participation in elections, with a six-hour completion time.
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This free-audit, self-paced course by Johns Hopkins University (via Coursera) explores the mathematical and political foundations of electoral systems. Through eight modules, learners study voting theory, electoral systems, power indices, apportionment, and gerrymandering, with lectures, readings, and exercises to analyze representation, fairness, and manipulation in democracies.
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