There are a number of data science resources at the University of Illinois that support research in the social sciences and digital humanities. Use the link below to view a list (in alphabetical order) of the groups who are conducting extreme-scale social science and digital humanities…
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Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability (Democracy, Free Enterprise, and the Rule)
In investigating the presidential campaigns and early administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability shows how campaign promises are realized in government once the victor is established in the Oval…
The Origins of Destabilizing Events
Destabilizing events such as those captured by SPEED's Societal Stability Protocol (SSP) - protests, politically motivated attacks, disruptive state acts, mass movements of people, irregular transfers of political power - do not happen in a vacuum. Rather, most are rooted in something.…
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinions Surveys and the Will of the People
Scott Athaus
Cambridge University Press, 2003
Schroeder Graduate Fellowship Program
The Schroeder Summer Graduate Fellowship Program is made possible by a generous gift from William A. and Paul W. Schroeder. The aim of the program is to enhance the quality of rigorous research on topics that fall within on-going research programs at the Cline Center by helping graduate students…
Domestic Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy (Democracy, Free Enterprise, and the Rule)
In looking at the remarkable proliferation of democracies since 1974, this volume offers important insight into the challenges and opportunities that democracy faces in the twenty-first century. Distinguished contributors detail difficulties that democracies face from within and how they deal…
The Quality and Reliability of Data Generated by SPEED's Societal Stability Protocol: Mechanisms and Tests
Extracting information from global news reports in the post WWII era makes it possible to capitalize on the billions of dollars that have been invested in reporting on newsworthy events during that timeframe. It also offers unprecedented opportunities to improve our understanding of important…
The Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups (CREG) Project
The Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups (CREG) project is a large-scale effort initiated by the Cline Center as part of its Societal Infrastructures and Development (SID) project. Its objective is to fill an important void in the field of comparative politics by creating a set of time-…
The David F. Linowes Fellows Program
The David F. Linowes Faculty Fellows Program is made possible by a generous gift from the Linowes family. The Linowes Fellowship provides exceptionally promising tenure-stream faculty with opportunities for innovation and discovery using the Cline Center’s data holdings and/or analytic tools.…
International Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy (Democracy, Free Enterprise, and the Rule)
Democracy enjoys unparalleled prestige at the beginning of the twenty-first century as a form of government. Some of the world's most prosperous nations are democracies, and an array of nations in Europe, Africa, and South America have adopted the system. This globalization has also met…
SPEED's Global News Index: An Overview and Assessment
The SPEED’s project capacity to contribute to advances in social research is bounded by the breadth and depth of its information base and the tools employed to mine data from that information base. If events are not captured in an information base – or identified using data mining tools – then…
A Progressive Supervised-learning Approach to Generating Rich Civil Strife Data
"Big data" in the form of unstructured text poses challenges and opportunities to social scientists committed to advancing research frontiers. Because machine-based and humancentric approaches to content analysis have different strengths for extracting information from unstructured text, we…
The Merriam Scholars Program
The Merriam Scholars Program was a program funded by the Merriam Endowment in which two faculty members, chosen by the Cline Center, were annual appointed as Merriam Scholars. Due to the terms of the Merriam Endowment appointments were limited to members of the Political Science faculty at the…
2018 SBSRI Grant: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Document Uses of Lethal Force by Law Enforcement in Nearly Real Time
This grant funds a proof-of-concept study for an authoritative national database of police-involved shootings. It aims to demonstrate machine learning technologies to detect and classify stories about these events and help to establish whether systemic bias exists, its implications, and how it…
Demarcating Episodes of Civil Strife: An Inductive, Iterative Approach
This document outlines the procedures and criteria used to delineate episodes of civil strife for 164 countries in the world for the period from January 1, 1946 to December 31, 2005. Prior research has been handicapped by a lack of data on civil strife events and defensible criteria for…