...Joseph R. Loffredo; Suyeol Yun The applications of large language models (LLMs) in political science are rapidly expanding. This paper demonstrates how LLMs, when augmented with predefined functions and specialized tools, can serve as dynamic agents capable of streamlining tasks such as data...

...Mitchell Bosley This paper investigates whether Large Language Models (LLMs), guided by prompt engineering, can automate the complex Discourse Quality Index (DQI) for measuring deliberative quality. Evaluating state-of-the-art models from OpenAI and Google by varying In-Context Learning (ICL...

... these questions, but measurement difficulties have limited scholarly consensus. Here, we propose a novel methodological approach to these questions, leveraging large language models (LLMs) to score the sentiment of judicial opinions, with a specific focus on differentiating normal jurisprudential disagreements...

...Nicholas G. Napolio I scale executive agencies along a liberal-conservative dimension using ChatGPT, a large language model, to produce both static measures of executive agency ideology and dynamic measures spanning 1949-2020, almost five decades more coverage than existing dynamic measures. My...