Projects per year
Personal profile
Personal Statement
I am a Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Political Science in the Department of Government & Public Policy, which I joined in 2020. Before moving to Glasgow, I completed a PhD at Binghamton University.
My research focuses on political representation, elite behaviour, and party politics. I use quantitative methods, including text analysis, to explore issue raising, emphasis, and adoption by political parties.
I teach Quantitative Methods at the postgraduate level and have taught a number of courses centered on political representation and party politics.
You can find more info on my personal website.
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Arts, Pennsylvania State University
Aug 2011 → May 2013
Award Date: 1 May 2013
Doctor of Philosophy
Aug 2014 → Oct 2020
Master of Political Science, The State University of New York, Binghamton
Aug 2014 → May 2017
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Why so few working-class women in politics? A comparative case of British and Scottish Elections
Sylvester, C. (Principal Investigator)
Project: Research - Studentship
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Process for recommending and agreeing sanctions on elected members: comparative research
Sylvester, C. (Principal Investigator) & De Francesco, F. (Co-investigator)
2/12/24 → 31/01/25
Project: Knowledge Exchange (Services/Consultancy)
Research output
- 1 Presentation/Speech
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Presentation - Is it all Cheap Talk? The effects of international climate agreements on domestic political debates
Sylvester, C., 14 Feb 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation/Speech
Datasets
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ParlEE plenary speeches V3 data set: Annotated full-text of 10 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers
Sylvester, C. (Creator) & Greene, Z. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 13 Sept 2023
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ietnnb
Dataset
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ParlEE plenary speeches data set: Annotated full-text of 21.6 million sentence-level plenary speeches of eight EU states
Greene, Z. (Creator), Sylvester, C. (Creator) & Ebing, B. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 11 Sept 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZY3RV7
Dataset
Activities
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Chancellors Fellows Application Information Session Invited Talk
Sylvester, C. (Speaker)
4 Dec 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Process for recommending and agreeing sanctions on elected members: comparative research
Sylvester, C. (Consultant)
1 Dec 2024 → 31 Jan 2025Activity: Consultancy types › Consultancy