Dear all, Please find the following CfP at the Italian Political Science Association's General Conference in Genoa between 14-16 September 2023 for our panel "Illiberalism and Computational Text Analysis". Deadline for May 31st. Contestations of the liberal scripts are a prominent feature of both domestic and international political settings. Far from being just a prerogative of authoritarian regimes, illiberal practices and ideas are now being propagated not only by populist/far-right movements but also by state structures within established democracies through an open thematization of the contestations to the liberal script within the public debate (Behrend and Whitehead 2016). Although we know that there is a growing internationalization of illiberal ideologies through the rise of transnational networks, we still do not have enough information about what illiberal discourses are. Aligning with the legitimation literature across political regimes (Gerschewski 2018), recent studies explore the language dimension of illiberalism: to what extent does illiberal discourse vary among different actors (e.g., Maerz and Schneider 2020)? How do they justify their policy positions in repudiating certain aspects of the liberal script while embracing others? How might this diversity affect the (im-)possibility of an illiberal international? In light of this complexity, computational text analysis (Grimmer et al. 2020) provides opportunities to systematically explore the communication strategies of illiberal actors in unprecedented fashions. As these techniques incorporate the use of novel and large datasets, such as speeches and parliamentary debates, newspaper articles and social media contents, their application to the study of illiberalism opens new scientific spaces for both methodological and theoretical innovation. Against this background, we invite submissions that focus on quantitative text analysis and related methods with a substantive focus on the following and related topics: * How can the use of computational techniques bring new methodological insights into the study of illiberalism and the autocratic use of political and normative discourse? * How do illiberal actors frame their domestic opponents using language and propaganda? * How does the discourse of illiberal actors varies or intersect in relation to the contestation of the liberal international order? What and how doe they contest? * How do illiberal actors use social media to generate a stabilizing political discourse both at home and within the international system? * How do autocrats instrumentalize liberal concepts to stabilize their political image both at home and within the international system? Submissions should include original research papers that make a substantial contribution to our understanding of how the application of text-related methodologies promotes deeper perspective in investigating how illiberal actors maintain and legitimize their power both in the domestic and international arena. Chairs: Adriana Cuppuleri, Mehmet Yavuz All the best, Mehmet PhD Researcher, Department of Political Science, Central European University, Vienna