Tayyar.

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Data access

The table catalog below is what the live dataset contains. The citable download is the frozen release, v1.0: every table as CSV and JSON, with checksums, under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The live tables keep growing past it, so the counts here run ahead of the release. Every score is also browsable through the live tools, with sources cited per entity. See methodology for the rubric.

Tables

  • Countries

    tayyar_countries
    24 rows

    MENA countries, ordered by tier. Includes English + Arabic + Hebrew names.

  • Parties

    tayyar_parties
    102 rows

    Every party with metadata — founded year, family tag, in-government flag, founders, current leader, alliance status.

  • Positions

    tayyar_aggregate_positions
    1195 rows

    Rater-panel medians (LLM panel + author prior). One row per (party × axis × lens). Composite is dense; declared and behavioral lenses coexist for the hand-coded lens-divergence subset.

  • Axes catalog

    tayyar_axes
    20 rows

    The scoring dimensions, with pole labels in English + Arabic and full descriptions.

  • Party alliances

    tayyar_party_alliances
    4 rows

    Joint electoral lists with member-party links and year ranges.

  • Politicians

    tayyar_politicians
    274 rows

    Heads of state, prime ministers, party leaders, and notable activists across the dataset. Politicians currently inherit their party position.

  • Documents

    tayyar_documents
    449 rows

    Verbatim primary-source texts — manifestos, charters, parliamentary speeches, UN addresses — tied to parties / politicians / countries. Seeded via the hunter pipeline; backs the document-grounded scoring layer described in the paper.

  • Bills

    tayyar_bills
    61 rows

    Marquee MENA legislation — constitutional acts, family-code reforms, anti-protest laws, executive decrees. With status and source citations.

  • Quotes

    tayyar_quotes
    989 rows

    The verified quote corpus that drives the Who-said-it game and the "On the record" sections on party / politician pages. Each row is a single attributable statement with year, context, native-language original where applicable, and at least one URL citation.

  • Events

    tayyar_events
    419 rows

    Regional political events — cabinet formations, elections, coalition shifts, protests, crises. Tied to one or more parties / politicians / countries.

  • Comparison briefs

    tayyar_comparison_essays
    20 rows

    Hand-written political-science mini-papers per canonical party pair, surfaced at the top of /compare. Each carries an Origins → Where they diverge → Where they overlap → Why it matters today structure.

How to cite Tayyar

Cite the paper for the instrument and the frozen release for the data; the dataset page has both citation blocks. Per-record citation blocks (BibTeX + APA) appear on each party, politician, and document page.

Citation 1 reference

Paper 1 Gara, T. (2026). The Model as One Rater Among Several: Measuring Political Positions in Data-Sparse Regions with a Language-Model Panel. Preprint, arXiv:2606.23042.

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@misc{gara_tayyar_2026,
  author        = {Gara, Tarek},
  title         = {The Model as One Rater Among Several: Measuring Political Positions in Data-Sparse Regions with a Language-Model Panel},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2606.23042},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CY},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2606.23042},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23042}
}