Introduction
PhD Candidate, Political Science, at the University of Toronto.
Currently based at the About page for more information.
New: Australian Parliament data
Australian MPs' party affiliations 2006-2024. Sourced from OpenAustralia.org (currently serving MPs) and Wikipedia scraping (former MPs), March 28, 2024.
Github companion blog
See recent blog posts on coding, text analysis, and computational tools here.
Recent conference papers
Moez, Catherine. 2023. "Audio data in populist political speakers' use of emotion." American Political Science Association (APSA) annual conference, Los Angeles, USA. September 2, 2023.
Moez, Catherine. 2023. "Free-Market Populism on the Canadian Right: A Quantitative Discourse Analysis of the Reform Party of Canada." Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) annual conference, Toronto. May 30, 2023.
Custom dictionaries
Stanford GloVe-based sentiment dictionaries (positive--negative; anger--fear polarities); Word etymology lexicon. © Catherine Moez, March 2023.
Original elections datasets and parliamentary data
Europe: Exact election dates, European elections 2000-mid 2023 (IDEA database + webscraping).
Canada: Conservative MPs' party affiliations 1980-2022; all MPs' party affiliations 1920-2019 (via LIPAD) and party affiliations 1994-2022 (via OpenParliament.ca) Converted from SQL to CSV for those who don't have SQL access.