A Linguistic Approach to Understanding Uncertainty and Transition in Authoritarian Regimes

This poster was presented at the 2016 Peace Science Society (International) (PSSI) conference in South Bend, IN. It describes a project on discourse analysis in authoritarian regimes, specifically North Korea. We are investigating ways to better understand the semantic relationships between and within topics, ways to visualize the relationships in the data, and future directions for political forecasting. We are deeply grateful to the many scholars who gave us valuable feedback and encouragement on this project!