(2025):
Quantitative Text Analysis using R. Scraping, Preparing, Visualising and Modelling Data.
London,
SAGE.
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Dr. Julian Bernauer
MZES IT Staff and Project Director
University of Mannheim, MZES
Building A
A5, 6 236
68159 Mannheim
Phone: +49-621-181-2861Building A
A5, 6 236
68159 Mannheim
E-Mail: julian.bernauer@mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Web: https://julianbernauer.github.io
Scientific Staff and Senior Researcher in the Computer Department of the MZES since August 2017. Previously Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer (Oberassistent) at the University of Bern (2012-2017) and doctoral studies (finished in 2012) and studies of Politics and Public Management (Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft) at the University of Konstanz.
Research focus:
- Political Institutions
- Representation
- Quantitative Methods.
Publication — recent
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(2019): Power Diffusion and Democracy: Institutions, Deliberation and Outcomes. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. More
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(2025): The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions. Royal Society Open Science, 12, 3, 1-23. More
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(2022): Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: PNAS, 119, 44, (article no. e2203150119), pp. 1-8. More
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(2018): Party unity in federal disunity: determinants of decentralised policy-seeking in Switzerland. West European Politics, 41, 3, 565-593. More
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(2018): Supply and Demand of Populism: A Quantitative Text Analysis of Cantonal SVP Manifestos. Swiss Political Science Review, 24, 4, 525-544. More
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(2018): The Halo Effect: Perceptions of Diffuse Threat and the SVP Vote Share. World Political Science, 14, 1, 27-54. More
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(2017): I the People? Self-Interest and Demand for Government Responsiveness. Comparative Political Studies, 50, 6, 794-821. More
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(2017): Conflict, choice or geography? Explaining patterns of democracy in continental Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 56, 2, 251-278. More
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(2015): Mind the gap: Do proportional electoral systems foster a more equal representation of women and men, poor and rich?. International Political Science Review, 36, 1, 78-98. More
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(2013): More Money, Fewer Problems? Cross-Level Effects of Economic Deprivation on Political Representation. West European Politics, 36, 4, 817-835. More
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(2012): The poor political representation of the poor in a comparative perspective. Representation, 48, 1, 47-61. More
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(2009): Intra-Party Preference Heterogeneity and Faction Membership in the 15th German Bundestag. A Computational Text Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches. German Politics, 18, 3, 385-402. More
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(2025): A Protective Belt for Democracy: How Configurations of Political Institutions Can Impede Democratic Backsliding. [1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference 2025: The Future of Democracy?, Berlin, 07/10/2025 - 09/10/2025]. More
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(2025): Measuring Populism From Party Manifestos With Multilingual Context-Sensitive BERT. [Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW), Geneva, 08/01/2025 - 09/01/2025]. More
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(2025): Bridging the Gap Between User and Hardware: Research-Ready AI Infrastructure for the Social Sciences. [Annual Meeting of the DVPW Section Methods of Political Science, Mannheim, 26/03/2025 - 26/03/2025]. More
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(2024): Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Machine-Learning-Verfahren zur Vermessung des institutionellen Kontexts des Studierens an deutschen Hochschulen. [Studienabbrüche verstehen: Die Auswirkungen institutioneller Faktoren auf Studienverläufe, (virtual), 28/04/2024 - 28/04/2024]. More
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(2024): Government-Opposition Affective Polarisation: A New Measure. [29. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Göttingen, 23/09/2024 - 26/09/2024]. More
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(2021): Who is we? Disambiguating the referents of first person plural pronouns in parliamentary debates. [Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2021), Düsseldorf, Germany, 05/09/2021 - 08/09/2021]. More
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(2019): Cross-Lingual Topical Scaling of Political Text using Word Embeddings. [General Online Research (GOR), Köln, 05/03/2019 - 07/03/2019]. More
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(2018): Measuring Populism: Quantitative Text Analysis Across Languages and Contexts. [8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, 20/06/2018 - 22/06/2018]. More
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(2017): Interactions between Party and Voter Populism: A Quantitative Text Analysis of Cantonal Manifestos of the SVP. [Swiss Elections Special Issue Author Conference (SPSR), Neuchâtel, 11/10/2017 - 12/10/2017]. More
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(2017): A Fourth Wave of Populism? Trajectories of Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe, 2000-2017. [11th ECPR General Conference, University of Oslo, 05/09/2017 - 08/09/2017]. More
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(2015): Ideological Congruence and Demand for Government Responsiveness. [5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, 24/06/2015 - 26/06/2015]. More
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(2014): Being Determines Consciousness? Economic Cleavages and Europeans’ Understandings and Evaluations of Democracy. [Conference on Advances in the Study of Democratic Responsiveness, Göteborg, 21/11/2014 - 22/11/2014]. More
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(2024): Power Concentration and Power Diffusion: A New Typology of Political-Institutional Patterns of Democracy. 410-428. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. More
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(2018): Aus der Balance? Das Verhältnis von Parlament und Regierung im internationalen Vergleich. 425-454. Zürich, Verlag NZZ. More
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(2024): The Effect of Germany’s Federalism on Student Success : The “Index of Commitment“ as Comparative Measure for Study and Examination Regulations. 16, 22. Hannover, Leibniz Universität. More