Publications

(2024). Unintended Effects of Cordons Sanitaires on the Electoral Success of Isolated Parties: Counterfactual Agent-Based Simulations in an Artificial Weimar Republic with Coalition-Directed Voters. Signals for Democracy: Assessing the Impact of Pre-Electoral Coalition Signals and Cordons Sanitaires on Party Competition using Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Agent-Based Simulation Evidence (Dissertation), pp. 85–178.

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(2024). How Voters React to Parties Breaking their Pre-Electoral Coalition Promises: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Ireland and New Zealand. Signals for Democracy: Assessing the Impact of Pre-Electoral Coalition Signals and Cordons Sanitaires on Party Competition using Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Agent-Based Simulation Evidence (Dissertation), pp. 181–244.

(2022). State Anxiety by Itself Does Not Change Political Attitudes: A Threat of Shock Experiment. Frontiers in Psychology 13, pp. 1–13.

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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), pp. 1–8.

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(2022). Measuring Inter-Party Communication: A Transfer Learning Approach. Working Paper (Under Review).

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(2022). Crisis Leadership Approval: The Opposing Effects of Perceived Threat and Anxiety. Working Paper (Under Review).

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(2022). Coalition-Directed Voting as a Lottery. Working Paper (Under Review).

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(2021). Come Hither or Go Away? Recognising Pre-electoral Coalition Signals in the News. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pp. 7798–7810.

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(2020). How Do Coalition Signals Shape Voting Behavior? Revealing the Mediating Role of Coalition Expectations. Electoral Studies 66, pp. 1–23.

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(2020). The Public Discourse on the German Federal Electoral Law Reforms 2011 and 2013. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 51(4), pp. 844–864.

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(2018). Comparing Political Discourses in Print and Online Media: An Empirical Analysis of the German Renewable Energy Act Amendment 2014. Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung 6(3), pp. 277–305.

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(2016). Advocacy Coalitions in the German Energy Policy: A Discourse Analysis of the German Renewable Energy Act Amendment 2014. der moderne staat 9(1), pp. 109–134.

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