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Burt Monroe

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Project:
IGERT: Big Data Social Science - An Integrative Education and Research Program in Social Data Analytics
Role:
Faculty: Project PI
Joined IGERT:
2012
Univ. or Institute:
Pennsylvania State University
Title:
Associate Professor
Primary Discipline:
Political Science
Academic Interests:
social sciences, statistical methodology, computational science
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About Me

I am a political scientist, with joint affiliation in the school of information sciences. I also direct Penn State’s Quantitative Social Science Initiative (QuaSSI).

My own research is in comparative politics (that means I study more than one country), with particular focus on mechanisms of democracy, and political methodology, with particular focus on text analytics and other data-intensive problems.

I direct the Legislative Speech Projects, a collection of multidisciplinary projects among political scientists, computational linguists, and statisticians developing data from the speech records of parliamentary debates, developing methods for analyzing such data, and using these data and methods to better understand democratic representation.