Training
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CCP Training Now Available on Sartori Suite of Concept Analysis Tools
The Comparative Constitutions Project held an online training on its new open-source digital tools for concept analysis. CCP’s concept integration team—Andrés Cruz, Zachary Elkins, Roy Gardner, Matthew Martin, Ashley Moran, and Guillermo Pérez—gave demos of the tools and walked through the kinds of questions that can be explored through the four new tools below: The training slides below include screen-capture demos of the…
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New Concept Repository Maps Topics across Law, Democracy, and Constitutions
CCP’s Concept Integration in Comparative Law project has launched a new concept repository that allows researchers to explore networks of concepts across the field of comparative law. Sartori.network Concept Repository The new Sartori.network platform allows researchers to upload, map, and compare concepts from research groups spanning law, democracy, and constitutions. This provides a platform for researchers to ask, for example: What is the…
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New Digital Tools Aid Comparative Constitutional Research
CCP’s Concept Integration in Comparative Law project has launched two new digital tools to aid researchers working with large corpora like constitutions and court rulings. The team’s suite of open-source concept analysis tools includes a new constitution comparison tool (to assess the textual and thematic similarity of constitutions), a new domain comparison tool (to expand the scope of topics tracked in a corpus), and…
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2025 Embedded Scholars Head to Europe and Latin America
The University of Texas at Austin’s Embedded Scholars program sent its 2025 cohort to Europe and Latin America this week to support democracy and electoral assistance programs abroad this summer. In Latin America, the fellows will work in CID Gallup offices in Panama, and in International IDEA’s Regional Office for Latin America, Chile Country Office, and…
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Embedded Scholars Win Democracy Research Award
Fellows in the University of Texas at Austin’s Embedded Scholars Program won an award for their research conducted in the spring Embedded Scholars class. Fellows Andreana Faucette and Paulina Licon won the 2024 Patman Center Research Award for Advancing Democracy, which recognizes “exceptional insight and dedication to advancing the cause of democracy.” Their research was…