Yannick Dufresne

What Part of Government Legislative Action is Driven by Campaign Pledges?

Do campaign promises made by a political party lead to public bills after that party forms government? We answer this question by relying on rich datasets comprising 686 public bills and 959 pledges made over the course of six mandates between 2000 and 2019. Two components of a mandate are defined: an explicit mandat...

AI politics and regulation in the European Parliament: Ideological divides and policy convergence amid generative AI’s ascent

This study examines how European parliamentarians frame artificial intelligence in plenary speech. It also assesses how these frames map onto partisan divisions. Analyzing 666 interventions in the European Parliament (2014–2024), it shows that frames of artificial intelligence follow traditional ideological cleavages,...

From Twitter to the headlines? Uncovering social media’s role as a political agenda-building tool during an election