Bastián González-Bustamante

Based in the Netherlands, I hold a DPhil (PhD) in Politics from the University of Oxford. My work bridges the fields of comparative politics, government and computational social science. I build large-scale text-as-data pipelines, deploy AI and machine learning models, and apply causal inference strategies. My recent peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Nature, Social Science Computer Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, World Development, Artificial Intelligence and Law, among others. I regularly present at IPSA, ECPR, EPSA, and COMPTEXT. At ECPR, I serve on the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on Political Methodology.

I am currently working on the Terrorist Group Adaptation & Lessons for Counterterrorism (TERGAP) project, funded by the European Union, to build a new dataset of counterterrorism events, which will help researchers identify patterns of adaptation, examine unintended effects of counterterrorism, and generate evidence to improve global security. In parallel, I contribute to COST Action CA22150 on executive-bureaucratic careers and lead the Enlace-Inserción UDP 2025-2026 project “Unpacking the Unpredictable: Using NLP and LLMs to Examine Cabinet Politics and Responses to Stochastic Events in Presidential Democracies.”