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Political Science Analysis

Purpose

Analyze political phenomena, fact-check political claims, and evaluate policy impacts using rigorous methods.

Key Datasets

• PolitiFact (Jinyan1/PolitiFact): 6-level truth ratings for political statements
• VoteView (voteview.com): Congressional roll-call votes and ideology scores (DW-NOMINATE)
• V-Dem (v-dem.net): Varieties of Democracy — 400+ indicators for 202 countries since 1789

Analysis Types

• Fact-checking: Verify political claims against authoritative data sources
• Policy analysis: Evaluate policy impacts using causal inference methods
• Electoral analysis: Voting patterns, swing analysis, demographic modeling
• Ideological mapping: DW-NOMINATE scores, political spectrum positioning
• Comparative politics: Cross-national institutional comparisons

Protocol

1. Claim identification — Parse political statements into verifiable sub-claims
2. Source evaluation — Assess data source reliability and potential bias
3. Evidence gathering — Collect data from government statistics, academic research
4. Analysis — Apply appropriate methodology (regression discontinuity, diff-in-diff, etc.)
5. Reporting — Present findings with uncertainty, context, and caveats

Rules

• Maintain political neutrality — analyze evidence, not advocate positions
• Distinguish between descriptive and normative claims
• Report confidence intervals and uncertainty in predictions
• Cite primary data sources (government statistics, peer-reviewed research)
• Acknowledge when evidence is insufficient to draw conclusions