Introduction
Currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Previously: PhD, Political Science, at the University of Toronto. (2024).
New, November 2024: Generic Embedding Lexicons
Arxiv preprint: Generic Embedding-Based Lexicons for Transparent and Reproducible Text Scoring. Data to be released at https://github.com/catmoez/Generic-Embedding-Lexicons shortly; please contact me at catherine.moez [at] rhul.ac.uk or catherine.moez [at] mail.utoronto.ca if you would like early access.
Github companion blog
See recent blog posts on coding, text analysis, and computational tools here.
Recent conference papers
Moez, Catherine, and Manos Tsakiris. 2024. "‘All the Same’? Assessing the Politically Disaffected’s Responses to Political Persuasion." Toronto--Montreal Political Behaviour Workshop. Montreal, Canada. September 27-28, 2024.
Moez, Catherine, and Randy Besco. 2024. "Who Raises Immigration on the Political Agenda? Evidence from Canadian News Media and Parliamentary Debates, 1988-2023." Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) annual meeting. Montreal, Canada, June 12-14, 2024.
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, Canada. May 30, 2023.
Custom dictionaries
See more text analysis resources (e.g., machine translations of existing lexicons) at my Github.
Original elections datasets and parliamentary data
Australia: Australian MPs' party affiliations 2006-2024. Sourced from OpenAustralia.org for currently serving MPs and Wikipedia scraping (former MPs). March 28, 2024. I also have lists of 'soft' vs 'hard' left Labor MPs I am developing -- please contact if interested.
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.