Events

Neue Veröffentlichung in dem Sammelband "Computational Social Science: Die Analyse von Big Data": "Twitter-Daten in der Wahlkampfforschung"

We welcome Prof. Dr. Erik Herron, who will stay at CDM and GSDS from June 11 to 15, 2018. Erik Herron is the Eberly Family Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University. His research focuses on political institutions, especially electoral systems. During his stay in Konstanz, he will work on a project about mixed member electoral systems with Susumu Shikano.

On May 24, 2018, 16:00 - 17:30 Karsten Donnay speaks in the seminar of the Data & Inequality Research Interest Group at the Alan Turing Institute on the topic of "Perceptions of Inequality and their Links to Political Instability: The Role of Data Science."

Karsten Donnay will present papers on three panels at the upcoming International Studies Association Conference in San Francisco that are co-authored with collaborators in the U.S, Switzerland and the UK. The conference will take place from April 4 to 7.

New article by Andreas Jungherr with Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen, and Alexander Wuttke on the difference between supporting free trade in the abstract and supporting specific trade agreements is out in Review of International Political Economy.

Sascha Göbel will introduce "legislatoR", a relational individual-level data package for the software environment R, at the Workshop on "Citizen and Elite Activity on Wikipedia". The package comprises political, sociodemographic, and Wikipedia-related data on elected politicians across the globe.

Susumu Shikano will present a paper "No money for Swabia? Political behavior in historical contexts." It investigates the gap in contemporary political behavior in Baden and Swabia. The paper was co-authored with Sandra Wankmüller (LMU Munich) and Jan Dix (Uni Konstanz).

Alexander Wuttke (U Mannheim), Andreas Jungherr, and Harald Schoen (U Mannheim) analyze the effects of an issue referendum on party members.

Kampagnenmachern, Journalisten und der Öffentlichkeit stellt sich die Frage nach dem Potential und möglichen Gefahren der Nutzung großer Datensätze und statistischer Modelle durch politische Organisationen. Auch wenn das Thema viel Aufmerksamkeit erhält, sind konkrete Nutzungsweisen und Wirkungen datengestützter Verfahren im Wahlkampf nur sehr vage umrissen und verstanden