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On April 12, WZB hosted a ceremony honoring Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels, who will retire end of September after >35 years at the WZB. Longstanding companions paid tribute to his research on democracy, elections, & parties, and his commitment in several large-scale projects.

📊#ManifestoMonday is back for 2024’s ‘super election year’: Starting with the #EUelections2024, we will do a little series of threads on issues, programs and positions throughout the year...

The upcoming EP elections are the ideal opportunity for us as Manifesto Project to look at political parties' attitudes towards the #EU. In the first of a series of threads, we investigate the salience of and positions on 🇪🇺 in national election manifestos from 1945 until today:

Fascinating analysis by Fabian Habersack, who uses our language model "manifestoberta" to classify the Austrian and European parties' manifestos as we approach #EuropeanParliament elections next month! 👇

📢Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2024 is here! What's new? 🧵:

You have a manifesto not yet annotated by us? You want to learn how to automatedly annotate texts with our categories? Check out the newest addition to our "Tutorials"-section💡 We run you through each step of applying our manifestoberta LLM in Python. manifesto-project.wzb.eu/tutorials/mani…

Which political messages make it into the media? In a recent blog post for DER STANDARD, our research fellow Christoph Ivanusch (together w. Paul Balluf) shares their findings on the interplay of various areas of party communication. Read it here (German): derstandard.de/story/30000002…

(1/4) NEW OPEN-ACCESS PUBLICATION: 'The limits of sportswashing. How the 2022 FIFA World Cup affected attitudes about Qatar' with J. Gerschewski, Sebastian Hellmeier, Eda Keremoğlu & M. Zürn in PLOS ONE (doi.org/10.1371/journa…). Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) WZB Freie Universität Universität Konstanz

Both our manifestoberta models (sentence + context) have been retrained on our updated corpus (2024a). Find the new manifestoberta versions (2024.1.1) on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/manifesto-proj… huggingface.co/manifesto-proj…

Am kommenden Sonntag ist #Nationalratswahl! 🗳️ Aber welche Themen sind den Parteien wichtig, was verbindet sie und wo unterscheiden sie sich? 🤔 Christoph Ivanusch hat sich dazu die Wahlprogramme angesehen. Lesen und teilen: 👇 derstandard.at/story/30000002… #Politikwissenschaftsblog

#ManifestoMonday is back with a new edition on the upcoming national elections in Austria🇦🇹. In a blog post for DER STANDARD, our research fellow Christoph Ivanusch takes you through the parties’ manifestos: derstandard.at/story/30000002… (German) We summarize the results in this🧵 1/7:

🆕 Where do parties interact? Christoph Ivanusch's study of press releases + tweets in 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 shows that issue engagement between parties varies across communication channels, revealing social media’s potentially transformative role in party competition 🔓 #OA bit.ly/4e6LeAN

🧵Policy shifts and polarization – a manifesto perspective on today’s #USelections2024. As the presidential race draws to a close, we have annotated and analysed the policy platforms that the Democratic and Republican parties have published ahead of the elections:

Last week, members of the SYNCPOL team Universität München visited Tongji University to take part in the workshop "Time and Political Power". This was sponsored by the LMU - ChAN program & the local host was Professor Zheng Chunrong.

Klaus H. Goetz, Radu-Mihai Triculescu, Leonce Röth & Christoph Ivanusch presented ongoing SYNCPOL work. More information on SYNCPOL can be found here: politicalsystems.org/erc-advanced-g…

🆕How do electoral opportunities shape party agendas? 🤔 Fabian Habersack explores how parties balance core & peripheral issues, adjusting to #voter stability and mobilisation potential ⚖️ 👉 bit.ly/4fM6ugI 🔓 #OA #Election

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication alert! 🚨 Why do parties sometimes bend over backwards to accommodate new demands, and why do they remain focused on their core policies at other times? Over the moon to see my single-authored study out in EJPR journal 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1475-6…

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #Text-As-Data / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3)

Neu erschienen: "What Makes it into the Media? Party Messages, Communication Channels, and Media Outlets" von Christoph Ivanusch (zusammen mit Paul Balluff) doi.org/10.1177/194016…