Aina Gallego

Un millón de votos La política en España se desplaza de lo económico a lo cultural, y el futuro del PP dependerá de si logra dar una respuesta propia o queda subordinado a la agenda de Vox

Hoy traemos un post de rabiosa actualidad. @lluisorriols.bsky.social hace una radiografía del trasvase de un millón de votos que se estaría produciendo entre el Partido Popular y VOX.

www.eldiario.es/132_c0bdc9?u...

🚨🚨 New paper alert: Culture vs. Institutions

@ainagallego.bsky.social‬, Ana Tur-Prats and I have a new paper out in the JOP that examines the impact of historical family types on modern-day female political representation.

Inteligencia artificial, empleo y género Las mujeres predominan en ocupaciones altamente expuestas a la IA, pero también tienen una fuerte presencia en sectores donde la IA puede complementar su trabajo. Las políticas públicas serán determin...

¿Cómo afectará la IA a las desigualdades de género en el trabajo?

Hoy @ainagallego.bsky.social nos muestra en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social la evidencia disponible.

www.eldiario.es/132_bc84fd?u...

YouTube video by UNIPAU- Universitat Internacional de la Pau Seminari d'Hivern 2025: Com afecta la intel·ligència artificial al treball?

Va ser un plaer parlar a la Universitat Internacional per la Pau de com la IA afectarà al treball amb Gorka Perez www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjR...

PhD Fellowship in Politics & Social Sciences (266956) | University of Stavanger Job title: PhD Fellowship in Politics & Social Sciences (266956), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, May 4, 2025

My department is *hiring a PhD* student (3 years, fully funded) for a research project on the social and political effects of AI-related technological change. *Deadline: May 4, '25*. See here for more information & to apply: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #PoliSky #Sociology #AcademicSky

📢Special issue and workshop on "The Politics of AI: Citizen Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities" 📢

We aim to bring together cutting-edge research on the political ramifications of AI for a workshop in Oxford and a special issue in a leading political science journal.(1/2)

We just launched a call for a workshop and special issue proposal on "The Politics of AI"! Excited to see many great submissions—join us in Oxford!

🗓️ Submission deadline: February 28 🗓️
Join us to the workshop "The Politics of AI: Actors, Policy, Geopolitics, and Resistances" (Barcelona 2-3 October 2025).
Submission form: forms.gle/daA2S1qcSnxc...
Call for papers: www.ibei.org/en/call-for-...

“An effective strategy would combine legal, institutional, and civil resistance methods to advance the pro-democratic agenda. It would spell out a positive and optimistic vision for the country, rather than a defensive strategy.”

Full call for papers:

Politics of Technology and AI Workshop -IBEI 2025

Please apply to the workshop "The Politics of AI: Actors, Policy, Geopolitics, and Resistances" (Barcelona, October 2-3). We seek empirical work on key actors, lobby and regulatory activities, and political conflict related to AI and Big Tech. Submission: forms.gle/o4rwT9km3iPX... by February 28.

For more details on the approach, check our paper in open access: 5/5
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Positioning British party manifestos on the Economic policy dimension (left to right wing scale). The numbers next to the dots indicate the years of the manifestos (4/5)

Positioning Senators of the 117th Congress on the left-right ideological spectrum based on a random sample of 100 of their tweets (3/5)

Positioning tweets published by members of the US Congress on the left-right ideological spectrum: (2/5)

Can DeepSeek accurately scale political text? @glemens.bsky.social just replicated the analyses of our joint Political Analysis paper with DeepSeek and with the newest version of Llama (Llama 3.3 70B). Overall, DeepSeekV3 performs at a level similar to Llama 3.3, but definitely not better. 1/5

Please follow my brilliant coauthor @glemens.bsky.social , the soul of this project

Explore more: The paper is available in open access here: 7/7
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An important caveat is that the scope of application of this approach is unclear without case-by-case validation. Our findings provide an important proof of concept that positioning political texts by "asking" an LLM and "averaging" the position ratings produces accurate position estimates. 6/7

Ideological scaling with LLMs has significant advantages over previous approaches
• Cost-efficient ($1.50 for 900 tweets vs. >1000$ human coding)
• Speed
• Scalability to diverse text types
• Reproducibility (with open LLMs like Llama or Mistral) 5/7

Our results show that position estimates correlate strongly (>0.90) with benchmarks based on expert coding, crowd workers, or roll-call votes. Moreover, this direct query approach outperforms traditional supervised classifiers like BERT trained on thousands of texts, especially for tweets! 4/7

We validated this method with:
• A random sample of 900 US Congress tweets published in 2023
• Positions of US Senators based on their published tweet
• UK party manifestos on economic/social policies
• Multilingual EU legislative speeches on subsidy policy 3/7

The approach is simple: we ask the LLM to evaluate where a short text (e.g., tweet or sentence) stands on a political scale such as a 0 to 100 left-right scale. We then average the ratings to obtain the position of longer texts (party manifestos) or political actors (US Senators). 2/7

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

📍 No Paris agreement
📍January 6 pardons
📍Slashing DEI
📍 Border emergency
📍 DOGE created
📍 Unregulated AI
📍 Territory expansions announced

Just a few. And then of course TikTok quasi save and the Gulf of America 🇺🇸

Enjoy the morning coffee Europe 🇪🇺 ☕️ 👀

STATEMENT: CAP’s Alondra Nelson Condemns Dangerous Repeal of AI Executive Order

In the executive order flurry: unregulated AI.

“Was it too much to ask AI developers for transparency regarding the safety testing of their products?” @alondra.bsky.social

thhttps://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement-caps-alondra-nelson-condemns-dangerous-repeal-of-ai-executive-order/

📣Summer school on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy", Paris, July 1-5, 2025📣
Organized with @rdassonneville.bsky.social

Guest speakers: @ainagallego.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social @jrovny.bsky.social

More info👇

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Thank you to all participants to the Workshop on AI & Politics at @cpoliticaub.bsky.social It was great to debate so much great work: aipsr.net/workshop-2-ai/

I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era. To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.

"Hungary’s key lesson is you don’t protect democracy by talking about democracy — you protect democracy by protecting people" by Gábor Scheiring www.politico.com/news/magazin...