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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · Sep 8

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · Sep 9

On Saturday, I'll present the paper “Movement Parties and Parliamentary Speech in Chile, Spain, and Mexico”, co-authored with @eborbath.bsky.social and @janschwalbach.bsky.social ; 2pm, East Meeting Level, East 3.

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Apr 24

…but don't worry about your parliamentary text input during this time: already tomorrow, @lukashetzer.bsky.social and @chrauh.bsky.social will be giving an introduction to our new #parllawspeech dataset at @comptext.bsky.social \3

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Apr 24

For the first time in 10 years, no #parlspeech / #parllawspeech / #parl_projectos_nuevos_speech scraper will be running on my laptop for 6 months… \2

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Apr 24

See you in 6 months 👋

My parental leave started last week and I'm looking forward to the new experiences and challenges. Best thing to do for a smooth transition into the new life: visiting the Parliament of Catalunya. \1

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Mar 26

As EU-US relations change Europe must stand firm for the DSA

The DSA is imperfect, it cannot fix everything. But the DSA is a shield to defend European democracy.

@dscheykopp.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social and I argue this in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ⬇️

www.techpolicy.press/will-europe-...

Will Europe Sacrifice the Digital Services Act in Negotiations with Trump? | TechPolicy.Press

Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling, and Claes H. de Vreese write that European leaders must protect the DSA to ensure a democratic future.

www.techpolicy.press

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Mar 21

We look at the different challenges and needs of researchers when sharing this kind of data. We cover the areas of researchers' capacities & incentives, legal & ethical challenges, and technical challenges. Furthermore, we outline potential ways forward and point to some existing solutions.

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Mar 21

🚨New article with Reiner Mauer in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social

This might be for you if you collect or use digital trace/behavioral data (e.g. social media data) and want to share it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs - Jan Schwalbach, Reiner Mauer, 2025

Over the past decade, research has made rapid progress in the collection and analysis of digital trace data. However, when it comes to sharing data, researchers...

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Lukas Hetzer @lukashetzer.bsky.social · Mar 4

Super excited to be part of the #TaDa Speaker Series presenting #ParlLawSpeech and how we use it in our own research together with @janschwalbach.bsky.social!

Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · Mar 4

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

The flyer shows the overview of the programme for the Text-as-Data Spring Term Speaker Series 2025, which usually takes place on Wednesdays at 5pm Berlin time.

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Mar 1

Congrats Jihed!! Very happy for you. Hope you celebrate a lot 🍾🎉

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Antonia May @acmay.bsky.social · Feb 18

🚨Publication Alert 🚨 Just in time for the next #BTW25, in my latest article doi.org/10.1111/pops... I show that far-right parties benefit strongly from heightened migration debates, but that left-wing parties can also benefit to some extent by offering pro-immigrant, inclusive positions. #polpsy

Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany

Exploiting the increased prominence of debates on immigration, right-wing parties often frame and campaign against immigrants as a threat to national societies. Research on national identity has show...

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Lukas Hetzer @lukashetzer.bsky.social · Feb 17

ParlLawSpeech also provides high-quality translations of speeches from the European Parliament 🇪🇺 and the Hungarian National Assembly 🇭🇺 into English. Learn more on our website at ParlLawSpeech.org/data and the respective GitHub page (github.com/ChRauh/OPTED...).

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Feb 13

So happy to see #ParlLawSpeech out there after years of scraping, cleaning, validating... have a look at our website parllawspeech.org and keep us posted if you use the data (free access via @gesis.org here: doi.org/10.7802/2824)

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · Feb 11

📢 Ready to dive into computational text analysis with #rstats?

Join @dielea.bsky.social, @janschwalbach.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social for the #GESISworkshop and gain hands-on skills to enhance your research!

More info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/comp-text-an...

GESIS Workshop
Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R
Lea Kaftan and Jan Schwalbach (both GESIS) & Jens Wäckerle (Cologne Center for Comparative Politics)
Online from 01 to 03 April 2025

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · Feb 4

New publication: "A Revolt of the Distrustful? Political Trust, Political Protest and the Democratic Deficit", co-authored with Edgar Grande; Journal of European Public Policy. #OpenAccess

Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Replication: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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A revolt of the distrustful? Political trust, political protest and the democratic deficit

During recent crises in Europe, new heterogeneous protest movements have emerged that are difficult to label and classify. Existing studies suggest that the common denominator of these protesters i...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · Feb 5

(1/8) Just published in @the-peio.bsky.social by @tommccraehunter.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social : We introduces IOParlspeech, a dataset of over 600,000 statements on 75 IOs in parliamentary debates (six countries: AT, CAN, DE, UK, USA, NZL) between 1990 and 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s115...

International organizations in national parliamentary debates - The Review of International Organizations

This data article introduces IOParlspeech, an original dataset of over 600,000 statements on international organizations (IOs) in parliamentary debates in six countries between 1990 and 2018. We expla...

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · Jan 23

*Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R* by @dielea.bsky.social, @jwaeckerle.bsky.social & @janschwalbach.bsky.social.

🗓️ 01 – 03 April 2025
🏢 Online
🌐 t1p.de/comp-text-an...

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · Jan 3

@janschwalbach.bsky.social asseses which theoretical considerations need to be thought through preceding any (legislative) text analysis & discusses how the nested structure of legislative behavior & the data generating process influence theoretic assumptions about parliamentary behavior. Read more:

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Nov 22

🚨New Publication in IPSR

Interested in comparative legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis? Have a look at our review article on current research agendas & data sources and their respective gaps:

➡️ doi.org/10.1177/0192...

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Oct 14

Furthermore, the results show a consistently significant positive effect of trust in the respective communication channel on the perceived credibility of a party message. 7/7

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Oct 14

While there is also a positive effect of the in-coalition party on the perception of credibility, it is lower compared to the in-group party. Hence, not every party that does not correspond to a voter’s intended vote choice is automatically an out-group party. 6/7

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Oct 14

Regarding the agreement with a statement, the information that it was made by an in-coalition party can have the same positive effect as with an in-group party in perception (if the statement does not contradict the position of the in-group party). 5/7

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Oct 14

While there is also a positive effect of the in-coalition party on the perception of credibility, it is lower compared to the in-group party. Hence, not every party that does not correspond to a voter’s intended vote choice is automatically an out-group party. 6/7

Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Oct 14

Using the survey answers on voting intention and government preference, I find that the effect of the sender on the perception of statements in multiparty systems is more complex than the well-known contrasts between in-group and out-group parties in two-party systems. 4/7

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · Oct 14

In order to avoid deception, only parties that actually agreed to the statement were chosen for each respective statement. The communication medium varied between Twitter, manifestos, and parl. speech. 3/7

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