Think of this section as a working intelligence board: not a blog archive, but a compact log of what is being clarified, with what materials, and toward which deliverable.
Literature Review
April 2026
How is democratic legitimacy narrated in digital public arenas?
A review focused on how legitimacy, state authority, and contestation are framed when political discourse moves across newspapers, platform traces, and institutional crises.
Question
Which narrative patterns connect discourse, legitimacy, and democratic erosion?
Material
Press archives, legitimacy literature, radical-right discourse, and comparative work on democratic trust.
Output
Conceptual memo for a paper introduction and a sharper literature review section.
NLP
Legitimacy
Media archives
Methods Note
May 2026
What makes a newspaper corpus analytically trustworthy over time?
A methods note on the practical problem behind longitudinal press datasets: scraping consistency, metadata quality, version control, and the transition from raw text to reusable research objects.
Question
How should a longitudinal text pipeline be documented so later inference remains auditable?
Material
Scraping scripts, corpus metadata, validation checks, and reproducible workflows in R.
Output
Short methods note for MethodoLab plus a reusable checklist for future corpus projects.
Web scraping
R workflows
Reproducibility
Upcoming Post
June 2026
What exactly is lost when a panel loses respondents across waves?
An editorial note designed to translate attrition into a substantive issue: not only a technical problem, but a challenge for inference, comparison, and interpretation in intercultural panel work.
Question
When does attrition alter the story we think the ELRI panel is telling?
Material
Wave-to-wave continuity, nonresponse patterns, and substantive shifts in intercultural attitudes.
Output
Public-facing post that explains panel logic without flattening the methodological stakes.
Survey methods
ELRI
Panels
Upcoming Post
July 2026
When does an agent-based model actually clarify a political mechanism?
A short note aimed at separating fashionable simulation from explanatory usefulness, especially in discussions of polarization, trust breakdown, and democratic instability.
Question
Which democratic processes are illuminated by simulation, and which are only redescribed?
Material
ABM literature, polarization research, and conceptual debates on mechanism-based explanation.
Output
Explainer post connecting theory, simulation, and empirical relevance for social scientists.
ABM
Democracy
Polarization