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

Comparative Politics
Elites
Institutions
Interest Groups
Political Leadership
Political Methodology
Political Sociology
Methods
Quantitative
Corruption
Power
Methodology
Big Data
Influence
P028
Franziska Keller
Universität Bern
Yuequan Guo
WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Title Details
Disentangling the past: Automatic network reconstruction from unstructured textual sources using large language models View Paper Details
Extracting Elite Career Data from Arabic CVs: An Open-Source LLM Approach View Paper Details
Protégé Networks and Meritocratic Political Selection under Personalist Rule View Paper Details
Shifting words, shifting regimes: Elite discourse and democratic decline View Paper Details
Mapping out Elite Networks: Methods and Application to German Political and Economic Elites between 2013 and 2023 View Paper Details
Connections and Political Survival in Personalist Autocracies: The Case of Russia’s Governors View Paper Details
The EU's Humanitarian Aid Network: Explaining Aid Allocation between 2016 - 2025 View Paper Details
Who Influences Whom? Analyzing the Interplay of Mainstream and Outsider Parties in Social Media Campaigns View Paper Details
Rearming Europe: Domestic Governance Ecosystems and the Demand for European Defence Integration View Paper Details
Authoritarian Connectivity: Chinese Business Elites and Internet Control in Africa View Paper Details
Dataframes within text haystacks: Evaluating Automation Framework for Structured Information Synthesis using LLMs View Paper Details
Research proposal: Using Large Language Models to Construct Cross-National Bureaucratic-Politico-Business Networks for Studying Rule of Law Backsliding View Paper Details
Political Networks in the Trump White House and Campaign View Paper Details
From RAGs to riches: collecting and processing elite formal networks from large-scale Chinese text through LLMs. View Paper Details
Mapping Political-Elite Networks in Europe with a Multilingual Joint Entity-Relation Extraction Pipeline: The VALPOP Project View Paper Details
What can go wrong? Using LLMs to extract networks of political actors from multilingual cross-platform search results on Swiss popular votes View Paper Details
When AI Becomes Fieldwork: Human–AI Interaction for Coding Moral-Elite Biographies View Paper Details
LLM‑Extracted Political Networks as a Basis for Ideological Mapping: Evidence from Chilean Elites, 2019–2025 View Paper Details
Research proposal: Corrupt Political Elites in Nigeria: Who Gets Exposed and Who Gets Prosecuted? A Social Network Analysis View Paper Details
Identifying Social Class and Networks from US Legislative Biographies using LLMs View Paper Details
From Fringe to Mainstream: Turkish Far-Right Parties' Influence on Legislative Agenda View Paper Details
Webs of Power: Unveiling Autocratic Elite Networks and Their Influence on Leader Constraints Using Large Language Models (LLMs) View Paper Details
Networks of Resource Extraction: Firm Alignments and Rebel Violence View Paper Details