In Innsbruck, we brought together scholars to discuss optimal approaches, data sources, and validation strategies. The goal was to enable large-scale comparative projects, and expand analysis beyond narrowly defined elites, and from simple to multiplex or signed networks.

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We gathered 25 scholars from around the globe and discussed for 4 days, how to study a larger set of elites, compare networks across countries and regime types, and examine networks with different types of connections.

 

​​You can find the whole program here and a photo gallery for some impressions here. If you are intrested in the abstracts of the papers presented or further information about the workshop, visit the website of the ecpr.

 

​​​​​​​While While the workshop is over now, we posted relevant materials like the content discussed and highlights here on this website and on social media, so follow us on Bluesky and X and subscribe to our LLM-polnet mailing list. You would like to read a paper that was being presented in our workshop? Reach out to the authors!

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A special thanks to the University of Bern's Digitalization Commission and the "EU Projekt Valuing Public Goods in a Populist World", whose generous funding have allowed us to offer travel stipends to early career scholars from Asia and the Americas.

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