Political and country risk analysts
The Classification Problem in Country Risk
Why analyst notes get argued with, what a coded position does that a label cannot, and how to build a house vocabulary two analysts can share.
Atlas / Free reports
Published in full · nothing to fill inFour free reports
Each takes the method and applies it to one kind of work. They are published open, in full, on this site — there is no form in front of them and no email required.
Why these are not gated
Putting the one persuasive document behind a form would contradict everything else here. The atlas is free, the dataset is free, the codebook is public and the audit reports findings against the instrument. A lead magnet that has to be paid for in email addresses would be the only thing on the site asking for something first.
Instructing solicitors and counsel
Political Classification as Expert Evidence
What survives cross-examination, what does not, and the boundary a classification instrument must not cross.
Heads of public affairs and government relations
Briefing a Board Without Taking a Side
How to characterise a political actor in a document that reads the same to a board member of any politics — and survives being forwarded.
Academics, think tanks and NGOs
Six Axes: the open codebook
The full coding scheme, the anchor definitions, the evidence standard, and an honest account of three tests the instrument failed.
Also free, and possibly more useful
The learning modulesShort courses ending in a cell you code yourself, score withheldA complete sample briefOne full commissioned deliverable, published unredactedThe whole dataset319 organisations, every score, every artefact, as JSON
Teaching with these? Use them without asking. Attribution where the format allows one, and nothing else.
The learning modules