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  1. The Argument and the Letterhead: Source-Position Coherence in AI Evaluation

    Sep 28, 2026Michele LoiLLM-as-a-JudgePolitical Bias in Language Models

  2. Geopolitical Divisions Across Languages in Large Language Models

    Sep 17, 2026Maxim ChupilkinMultilingual Language Model EvaluationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  3. Before You Poll with LLMs: A Deliberative Diagnostic Framework

    Sep 14, 2026Ahmed Wali, Hassaan TayyabLLM EvaluationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Lahore University of Management Sciences

  4. New Conditions for Philosophers to Catch the Wave of Citizen Deliberation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence in advance

    Sep 14, 2026Bernard ReberPolitical Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    CEVIPOF · National Centre for Scientific Research and Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po

  5. Issue Bias in Generative AI Writing Assistance: Political Issues and LLMs in the Swedish 2026 Election

    Sep 14, 2026Bastiaan Bruinsma, Annika Fredén, Paul Röttger +2Political Discourse AnalysisPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Chalmers University of Technology · University of Gothenburg · Lund University +1

  6. When Does Defendant Statement Matter? A Study of Bias and Persuasion in LLM-Simulated Jurors

    Sep 9, 2026Cho-Ying WuLegal Judgment PredictionSocial Bias in Language Models

    Bosch AI Research

  7. Navigating the digital spectrum: Assessing political bias, stability, and downstream fairness in Large Language Models

    Sep 8, 2026Luka Debevc, Nishan Chatterjee, Antoine Doucet +2Multilingual Language Model EvaluationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    1Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia · University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia · 2Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia +1

  8. From Echo Chambers to Epistemic Monoculture: Large Language Models Present Temporally Contingent Partisan Alignments as Knowledge

    Sep 7, 2026Wend K. TamLLM AlignmentLLM Interpretability

    National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  9. We're Cooked! - Probing LLM Political Alignment Via Conflict-Framed Recipe Translation

    Sep 7, 2026Svetlana Gorovaia, Angelica Henestrosa, Ivan P. YamshchikovCross-Lingual Reasoning in Language ModelsLLM Prompting

    CAIRO, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt Würzburg, Germany

  10. Who Would You Vote For? Auditing Political Alignment in LLMs: An Italian Case-Study

    Aug 12, 2026Simone MungariLLM AuditingPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Revelis s.r.l.

  11. Templated or fully synthetic? Prompt construction as a confound in measuring LLM political stance beyond writing assistance

    Aug 11, 2026Ilias ChalkidisLLM PromptingPolitical Bias in Language Models

    The National Center for AI in Society (CAISA) University of Copenhagen Denmark

  12. Poli-Bias: Understanding and Measuring Large Language Model Biases in International Political Conflicts

    Aug 6, 2026Massi-Nissa Abboud, Aladin Djuhera, Elena Cabrio +1LLM SycophancyLLM Auditing

    Université Côte d’Azur · Technical University Munich

  13. Polistemics: Evaluating LLMs as Information Mediators in Politics & Elections

    Jul 28, 2026Baran Peters, Gabor Hollbeck, Robert Jakob +1Political Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    ETH Agentic Systems Lab · CORDA

  14. Auditing Alignment Controllability in LLMs via Political Axes

    Jul 26, 2026Bartol Bućan, Nikola Sočec, Sarah Isufi +5LLM AlignmentLanguage Model Steering

    Student at University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia · It From Bit d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia · University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia

  15. REGARD: Regional Affective Differences in Large Language Models

    Jul 22, 2026Andrei Chetvergov, Alexander Evseev, Mikhail Solovev +5Political Bias in Language ModelsValence-Arousal Modeling

    Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia · Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia

  16. Grokipedia vs Wikipedia: An LLM-Based Audit of Political Neutrality along Ideologies

    Jul 16, 2026Filippos Vlahos, Guillaume Bied, Tijl De BieLLM AuditingPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Ghent University, BE

  17. Innocuous-Seeming Data, Latent Ideology: Ideological Generalisation in Finetuned LLMs

    Jul 16, 2026Robert Graham, Edward Stevinson, Yariv BarsheshatLLM Fine-TuningPolitical Bias in Language Models

    1Independent · 2Imperial College London.

  18. How Temperature Shapes Ideological Discourse in Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

    Jul 13, 2026Elmira Salari, Hazem Amamou, José Victor de Souza +3Retrieval-Augmented GenerationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Elmira Salari, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA · Hazem Amamou, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Québec, Montréal, Canada · José Victor de Souza, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Québec, Montréal, Canada +3

  19. Are LLMs ready for HardChoices?

    Jul 13, 2026Dmitry NikolaevPolitical Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    University of Manchester

  20. Geopolitical alignment: Endorsement effects in large language models

    Jul 10, 2026Maxim ChupilkinPolitical Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

  21. AuAu: A Benchmark for Auditing Authoritarian Alignment in Large Language Models

    Jun 15, 2026Andreas Einwiller, Max Klabunde, Florian LemmerichLanguage Model Safety EvaluationLLM Auditing

    University of Passau, Germany

  22. Polar: A Benchmark for Evaluating Political Bias in LLMs

    Jun 11, 2026Sangho Kim, Heejin Kim, Yoonhee Park +2Multilingual Language Model EvaluationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University · Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

  23. The Shibboleth Effect: Auditing the Cross-Lingual Distributional Skew of Large Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Hakan MehmetcikMultilingual Language Model EvaluationLLM Auditing

    Visiting Researcher, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA · Prof of International Relations, at the Faculty of Political Science, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  24. The Neutral Mask: How Alignment Training Provides Shallow Alignment while Leaving Partisan Structure Intact in a Large Language Model

    Jun 8, 2026Wendy K. TamLLM AlignmentLLM Interpretability

    Professor and Stevenson Chair in the Departments of Political Science, Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, and the Law School at Vanderbilt University, and an affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  25. The Amplifying Mirror: Locating and Steering the Partisan Direction inside a Large Language Model

    Jun 7, 2026Wendy K. TamLLM InterpretabilityPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Professor and Stevenson Chair in the Departments of Political Science, Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, and the Law School at Vanderbilt University

  26. Friend or Foe? Language as an ideological switch in open-weight LLMs under Russian disinformation stress

    Jun 7, 2026Anna Małgorzata Kamińska, Tetiana KlyninaMultilingual Language Model EvaluationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland · University of Texas at Austin 2515, TX 78712 Speedway Str., Texas, USA · National Aviation University, Liubomyr Huzar Avenue 1, Kyiv 03058, Ukraine

  27. Does Topic Sentiment Cause Perceived Ideology? Comparing Human and LLM Annotations in Political News Articles

    Jun 4, 2026Upasana ChatterjeeLLM-Assisted AnnotationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Department of Computer Science Columbia University

  28. Large Language Models are Perplexed by some Political Parties

    Jun 4, 2026Paul Lerner, François YvonMultilingual Language Model EvaluationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR 75005, Paris, France

  29. Large Language Models in K-12 Education: Alignment with State Curriculum Standards and Student Personas

    Jun 3, 2026Lisa Korver, Tomo Lazovich, Sherief RedaLLM EvaluationAI in Education

    Department of Computer Engineering · Brown University · Providence, RI 02906 +1

  30. Unsupervised Identification and Removal of Spurious Correlations During Fine-Tuning

    May 26, 2026Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee, Joseph Egan, Yuchen Zhu +1LLM Fine-TuningPolitical Bias in Language Models

    University College London · University College London† · Spotify

  31. LLM-Ideoplasticity: Measuring Ideological Plasticity in the Political Behavior of LLMs as a Context-Conditioned Distribution

    May 26, 2026Adib Sakhawat, Syed Rifat Raiyan, Tahsin Islam +3Political Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    Systems and Software Lab (SSL) Department of Computer Science and Engineering Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  32. It's the humans, not the data: Geopolitical bias in LLMs originates in post-training, amplified by the language of the prompt

    May 22, 2026Stuart Bladon, Brinnae BentPolitical Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    Duke University

  33. Reducing Political Manipulation with Consistency Training

    May 21, 2026Long Phan, Devin Kim, Alexander Pan +3Social Bias in Language ModelsPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Center for AI Safety · UC Berkeley

  34. How Far Will They Go? Red-Teaming Online Influence with Large Language Models

    May 20, 2026Daniel C. Ruiz, Anna Serbina, Ashwin Rao +2Language Model SteeringLLM Auditing

    Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA

  35. Diagnosing Korean-Language LLM Political Bias via Census-Grounded Agent Simulation

    May 18, 2026Sungwoo KangPolitical Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Calibration

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  36. AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion

    May 15, 2026Stratis Tsirtsis, Kai Rawal, Chris Russell +2Opinion DynamicsLLM Auditing

    1Hasso Plattner Institute · 2Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford · 3Weizenbaum Institute

  37. Political Plasticity: An Analysis of Ideological Adaptability in Large Language Models

    May 8, 2026Bruno Bianchi, Diego Tiscornia, Matias Travizano +1Political Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    Lab. de Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada, Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación · Dpto. de Computación, Facultad de Cs. Exactas y Naturales, UBA-Argentina · Disarmista

  38. The Invisible Coalition Partner: How LLMs Vote When Democracy Gets Concrete

    May 3, 2026Joel BarmettlerPolitical Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    Independent Researcher Zurich, Switzerland

  39. Can AI Debias the News? LLM Interventions Improve Cross-Partisan Receptivity but LLMs Overestimate Their Own Effectiveness

    May 1, 2026Faisal Feroz, Jonas R. KunstLLM EvaluationHuman Behavior Simulation

    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford · Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford · Psychology Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University +1

  40. Political Bias Audits of LLMs Capture Sycophancy to the Inferred Auditor

    Apr 30, 2026Petter Törnberg, Michelle SchimmelLLM SycophancyPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  41. A Multi-Dimensional Audit of Politically Aligned Large Language Models

    Apr 27, 2026Lisa Korver, Mohamed Mostagir, Sherief RedaLLM AuditingPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Department of Computer Engineering Brown University Providence, RI 02906 · Ross School of Business University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109

  42. Ideological Bias in LLMs' Economic Causal Reasoning

    Apr 23, 2026Donggyu Lee, Hyeok Yun, Jungwon Kim +4Political Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    Graduate School of Data Science, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea · College of Business, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea · School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea +1

  43. When Bigger Isn't Better: A Comprehensive Fairness Evaluation of Political Bias in Multi-News Summarisation

    Apr 23, 2026Nannan Huang, Iffat Maab, Junichi YamagishiSocial Bias in Language ModelsPolitical Bias in Language Models

    RMIT University, Australia · National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

  44. Polarization by Default: Auditing Recommendation Bias in LLM-Based Content Curation

    Apr 17, 2026Nicolò Pagan, Christopher Barrie, Chris Andrew Bail +1LLM PromptingSocial Bias in Language Models

    University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Zurich, CH · New York University, Department of Sociology, New York, USA · University of Oxford, Department of Sociology, Oxford, UK +2

  45. A Scalable Entity-Based Framework for Auditing Bias in Large Language Models

    Jan 18, 2026Akram Elbouanani, Aboubacar Tuo, Adrian PopescuLLM AuditingPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List, F-91120, Palaiseau, France

  46. The Language You Ask In: Language-Conditioned Ideological Divergence in LLM Analysis of Contested Political Documents

    Jan 17, 2026Oleg SmirnovMultilingual Language Model EvaluationPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Microsoft / Stockholm, Sweden

  47. What Is The Political Content in LLMs' Pre- and Post-Training Data?

    Sep 26, 2025Tanise Ceron, Dmitry Nikolaev, Dominik Stammbach +1LLM AuditingPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Bocconi University, Italy · University of Manchester, UK · Princeton University, USA

  48. Political Ideology Shifts in Large Language Models

    Aug 22, 2025Pietro Bernardelle, Stefano Civelli, Leon Fröhling +3Political Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia · GESIS, Cologne, Germany · University of Udine, Udine, Italy