Models developed by poltextLAB were applied in new research on parliamentary conflict in Portugal, using a newly released dataset on legislative activity. The Portuguese Parliament (Assembleia da República) Roll-Call Votes Dataset (1980–2024) has just been uploaded to the Harvard Dataverse, covering all legislative proposals from the II Legislature (1980–1983) to the XV Legislature (2022–2024). From 1999 onwards, proposals are classified into 21 major policy categories based on the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) framework, using CAP Babel Machine models. This version of the dataset was used in a recent article co-authored with Sofia Serra-Silva and Tiago Silva examining how the entry of the radical right into Parliament has contributed to escalating parliamentary conflict.
The study is available here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2025.1553921/full
Dataset available here: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VJDEVK
Researchers and practitioners can also access the models developed by poltextLAB on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/poltextlab The Babel Machine is available here: https://babel.poltextlab.com/
