Reading Time: 9 minutesEurope’s democratic landscape in 2025 cannot be divided neatly into countries that are democratic and countries that are not. The revised dataset instead reveals several distinct patterns: established democracies that have lost part of their previous strength, countries that have improved modestly from relatively weak…

Reading Time: 9 minutesDemokratska mapa Evrope u 2025. godini ne može se jednostavno podeliti na demokratske i nedemokratske države. Baza podataka pokazuje nekoliko različitih obrazaca: stabilne demokratije koje su izgubile deo nekadašnje snage, države koje su skromno napredovale sa relativno niskih početnih pozicija i manju grupu država čiji…

Reading Time: 8 minutesA country can improve compared with its own past and still remain behind its neighbours. It can also retain one of the region’s strongest election administrations while losing ground in media freedom, public debate and the broader conditions of political competition. This is why the…

Reading Time: 8 minutesDržava može napredovati u odnosu na sopstvenu prošlost, a ipak zaostajati za susedima. Može istovremeno imati jednu od najboljih izbornih administracija u regionu i gubiti pozicije u oblasti slobode medija, javne rasprave i širih uslova političke konkurencije. Zbog toga analiza pojedinačnih država iz prvog dela…

Reading Time: 9 minutesPart 2. From Emotion to Political Rhetoric: How the Speech Builds Its Message Is the speech positive or negative? A first look at the Bing sentiment dictionary produces an apparently surprising result. Of the words recognised by the lexicon, 197 are classified as positive and…

Reading Time: 8 minutesDeo 2. Od emocija do političke retorike: kako govor gradi svoju poruku Da li je govor pozitivan ili negativan? Bing rečnik sentimenta daje na prvi pogled neočekivan rezultat. Među rečima koje je rečnik uspeo da klasifikuje nalazi se 197 pozitivnih i 144 negativne. To znači…

Reading Time: 9 minutesAn election can be orderly without being fully democratic. Ballot papers may arrive on time, polling stations may open, votes may be counted correctly and official results may be published, yet citizens may still have been denied a genuinely equal opportunity to choose. One party…

Reading Time: 7 minutesPart 1. From Words to Themes: Mapping the Vocabulary of a Political Speech Introduction: What can text analysis tell us about a political speech? Political speeches are designed not merely to transmit information. They construct stories, identify groups, assign responsibility, evoke emotions, recall selected episodes…

Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction: why sentiment belongs to election forensics Election forensics is often associated with numbers: turnout, vote shares, invalid ballots, polling-station anomalies, unusual statistical patterns or inconsistencies between official databases and polling-station records. These are essential elements of electoral verification. However, election results are not produced…

Reading Time: 5 minutesUvod: zašto sentiment pripada izbornoj forenzici Kada se govori o izbornoj forenzici, najčešće se misli na analizu rezultata: izlaznost, glasove po biračkim mestima, nevažeće listiće, neobične obrasce u distribuciji glasova ili neslaganja između zapisnika i objavljenih podataka. To je važan, ali samo jedan deo slike….