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EDITORIAL article

Front. Polit. Sci.

Sec. Political Science Methodologies

This article is part of the Research TopicMethods in political science – Innovation & DevelopmentsView all 11 articles

Editorial

Provisionally accepted
  • 1Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2LIVES, Swiss Center of Expertise in Life Course Research, Lausanne, Switzerland

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

 Jenny Lindholm, Jesper Eklund, Kim Strandberg, Tom Carlson, and These papers contribute to advancing methods in political science and invite other researchers to further apply, refine, and innovate these concepts, models, and approaches to enhance political science research in the future.

Keywords: methods, analysis, innovation, Methodological innovation, LLM, Idology, Survey methods

Received: 24 Nov 2025; Accepted: 27 Nov 2025.

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* Correspondence: Jan-Erik Refle

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