Advancing Research on Advocacy Coalitions Through the Automated Measurement of Beliefs and Networks

• In Event: Methodological Innovations in the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Brief Overview

Using invasive species management in the Southwestern United States as a policy context, we use natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) to implement a theoretically-grounded ontology of networks and beliefs.

Authors

• Edwin Alvarado-Mena, University of Arizona

• Adam Douglas Henry, University of Arizona

• Liz Anne Baldwin, University of Arizona