CfP | ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops

7 - 10 April 2026

Using Large Language Models (LLMs) and Other AI Tools to Gather and Analyse Political Elite Networks

This workshop is co-organized with Prof. Franziska Keller (University of Bern). If you are interested, please apply through the link.

Do you study political networks and use AI-tools to gather the necessary data? Join our workshop at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Innsbruck, Austria, April 7-10, 2026, and discuss your approach and findings with like-minded peers!

We are particularly interested in:
1. Studies that explore new political network questions enabled by AI-tools or that revisit classical questions using such tools.
2. Analyses that either compare different data-gathering approaches to the same case or apply the same approach to different cases to test its generalizability
3. Innovative ways to combine human and AI-inputs in the data-gathering process
4. Novel ways to ensure a) replicability, in particular for proprietary AI-tools, and b) test the reliability or external validity of networks constructed, i.e. construct ground-truth data sets
5. Methods for improving LLM effectiveness and scalability in extracting political networks

If you want to join the workshop, submit an abstract of no more than 500 words by December 10, 2025.