Month: June 2024

On June 20, 2024, Rebeka Kiss attended the Tag der Parlamentsforschung – Day of Parliamentary Research conference organised by the Österreichisches Parlament in Vienna. Rebeka Kiss presented co-authored work with Miklós Sebők on  “The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central-Eastern Europe.” The programme of the conference is available here: https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/fachinfos/parlamentsforschung/Day-of-Parliamentary-Research-2024-Abstracts.pdf.

On June 18, 2024, Sean Theriault,  guest speaker of the VSHIFT Momentum project at poltextLAB, gave a lecture at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science with the title “The Policy Agendas of a Global Power: The Case of the Holy See.” Theriault is a professor at the University of Texas; his expertise include the U.S. Congress, the presidency, political parties, elections, and party ploarization. He is the author of five books and numerous articles in a variety of journals on subjects ranging from presidential rhetoric to congressional careers and the Louisiana Purchase to the Pendleton Act of 1883.The abstract of his lecture is available here: https://politikatudomany.tk.hu/esemeny/2024/05/speaker-series-sean-theriault.

On June 11, 2024, a new article has been published by Miklós Sebők, Ákos Máté, Orsolya Ring, Viktor Kovács and Richárd Lehoczki  in the Social Science Computer Review. The title of the article is “Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach.” The publication is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08944393241259434.