Research
Research
Ongoing Projects
Supported:
Machine Learning for Peace Project, DevLab@Penn
Machine Learning for Environmental Event Detection, DevLab@Penn
The Politics of Air Pollution in India, Center for the Advanced Study of India
Governance Challenges in Small Towns of India, Center for the Advanced Study of India
Collaborations:
Press Freedom and Regime Accountability (With Diego Romero & Erik Wibbels)
Corruption Scandals and Civic Space (With Diego Romero & Erik Wibbels)
Solo (Work in Progress):
Political Geography of Ethnic Voting
The (il)logic of Campaign Spending
Publications
Moratz, D., Springman, J., Wibbels, E., Adiguzel, F. S., Villamizar-Chaparro, M., Lin, Z. R., ... & Swami, J. (2025). Tracking Civic Space in Developing Countries with a High-Quality Corpus of Domestic Media and Transformer Models. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zp3sr_v2 (Pre-print)
Romero, D., Swami, J., Wibbels, E. (2023). High-Frequency Evidence on Corruption in 53 Countries: New Data from the MLP Project. (Available here)
Conferences