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Can Large Language Models (LLMs) accurately predict election outcomes? While LLMs have demonstrated impressive performance in various domains, including healthcare, legal analysis, and creative tasks, their ability to forecast elections…

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Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly become indispensable tools for acquiring information and supporting human decision-making. However, ensuring that these models uphold fairness across varied contexts is critical to their safe and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xulang Zhang , Rui Mao , Erik Cambria

Political beliefs vary significantly across different countries, reflecting distinct historical, cultural, and institutional contexts. These ideologies, ranging from liberal democracies to rigid autocracies, influence human societies, as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Natalia Ożegalska-Łukasik , Szymon Łukasik

There have been numerous studies evaluating bias of LLMs towards political topics. However, how positions towards these topics in model outputs are highly sensitive to the prompt. What happens when the prompt itself is suggestive of certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Avneet Kaur

This paper systematically examines nation-level biases exhibited by Large Language Models (LLMs) within the domain of International Relations (IR). Leveraging historical records from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), we developed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jonghyeon Choi , Yeonjun Choi , Hyun-chul Kim , Beakcheol Jang

Large Language Models are increasingly used in applications requiring objective assessment, which could be compromised by political bias. Many studies found preferences for left-leaning positions in LLMs, but downstream effects on tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Charlott Jakob , David Harbecke , Patrick Parschan , Pia Wenzel Neves , Vera Schmitt

Large Language Models (LLMs) display remarkable capabilities to understand or even produce political discourse but have been found to consistently exhibit a progressive left-leaning bias. At the same time, so-called persona or identity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Maximilian Kreutner , Marlene Lutz , Markus Strohmaier

The use of large language models (LLMs) is becoming common in political science and digital media research. While LLMs have demonstrated ability in labelling tasks, their effectiveness to classify Political Content (PC) from URLs remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Alejandro De La Fuente-Cuesta , Alberto Martinez-Serra , Nienke Visscher , Laia Castro , Ana S. Cardenal

This paper investigates the voting behaviors of Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4 and LLaMA-2, their biases, and how they align with human voting patterns. Our methodology involved using a dataset from a human voting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Joshua C. Yang , Damian Dailisan , Marcin Korecki , Carina I. Hausladen , Dirk Helbing

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate politically biased text. Yet, it remains unclear how such biases arise, making it difficult to design effective mitigation strategies. We hypothesize that these biases are rooted in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Tanise Ceron , Dmitry Nikolaev , Dominik Stammbach , Debora Nozza

Before being deployed for user-facing applications, developers align Large Language Models (LLMs) to user preferences through a variety of procedures, such as Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF) and Direct Preference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Michael J. Ryan , William Held , Diyi Yang

The study of how social media affects the formation of public opinion and its influence on political results has been a popular field of inquiry. However, current approaches frequently offer a limited comprehension of the complex political…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Pratik Gujral , Kshitij Awaldhi , Navya Jain , Bhavuk Bhandula , Abhijnan Chakraborty

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data to generate natural language, enabling them to perform tasks like text summarization and question answering. These models have become popular in artificial intelligence (AI)…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate social behaviour, yet their political biases and interaction dynamics in debates remain underexplored. We investigate how LLM type and agent gender attributes influence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Aishwarya Bandaru , Fabian Bindley , Trevor Bluth , Nandini Chavda , Baixu Chen , Ethan Law

The 2024 US presidential election is the first major contest to occur in the US since the popularization of large language models (LLMs). Building on lessons from earlier shifts in media (most notably social media's well studied role in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sarah H. Cen , Andrew Ilyas , Hedi Driss , Charlotte Park , Aspen Hopkins , Chara Podimata , Aleksander Mądry

While LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text generation and reasoning, their ability to simulate human decision-making -- particularly in political contexts -- remains an open question. However, modeling voter behavior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Chenxiao Yu , Jinyi Ye , Yuangang Li , Zheng Li , Emilio Ferrara , Xiyang Hu , Yue Zhao

The guiding principle of AI alignment is to train large language models (LLMs) to be harmless, helpful, and honest (HHH). At the same time, there are mounting concerns that LLMs exhibit a left-wing political bias. Yet, the commitment to AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Thilo Hagendorff

Partisan bias in LLMs has been evaluated to assess political leanings, typically through a broad lens and largely in Western contexts. We move beyond identifying general leanings to examine harmful, adversarial representational associations…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Divyanshu Kumar , Ishita Gupta , Nitin Aravind Birur , Tanay Baswa , Sahil Agarwal , Prashanth Harshangi

The political biases of Large Language Models (LLMs) are usually assessed by simulating their answers to English surveys. In this work, we propose an alternative framing of political biases, relying on principles of fairness in multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Paul Lerner , François Yvon

Recent works have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) have a tendency to memorize patterns and biases present in their training data, raising important questions about how such memorized content influences model behavior. One such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shanshan Xu , T. Y. S. S Santosh , Yanai Elazar , Quirin Vogel , Barbara Plank , Matthias Grabmair