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Lukas is a Doctoral Researcher at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne. In his research, he combines observational text survey data to study political preferences and behavior in the EU. In his doctoral thesis, he studies how the political preferences and behavior of citizens and policy makers are affected by crises.
Previously, Lukas worked as a Data Specialist at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Social Sciences Research from the University of Amsterdam and a B.A. degree in Social Sciences from the Humboldt-University of Berlin.

political behavior | political preferences | quantitative text analysis | data linking

Email: lukas.hetzer[at]wiso.uni-koeln.de

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Sven-Oliver Proksch is a Professor of Political Science and Chair for European and Multilevel Politics at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne. His research interests include political representation, democratic political institutions, party politics, parliamentary debates, political text analysis, and European politics. His book The Politics of Parliamentary Debate: Parties, Rebels, and Representation (with Jonathan B. Slapin) has been published with Cambridge University Press and is the 2016 winner of the Richard Fenno award for best book in legislative studies as well as 2016 co-winner of the Leon Epstein award for best book on political organizations and parties.

parliamentary debates I quantitative text analysis I political representation I European politics

Email: so.proksch[at]uni-koeln.de

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Christian Rauh is a senior researcher in the Global Governance unit of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and a Professor for the ‘Politics of Multilevel Governance’ at the University of Potsdam. His key interests are decision-making processes of European and international institutions as well as their politicization in public debates. His respective empirical analyses often apply and develop quantitative text analysis tools, leading also to the provision of large-scale political text corpora covering amongst others national parliamentary debates, legislative documents of the EU, or media reports about international organisations. More information about Christian’s work is available at www.christian-rauh.eu

European Union politics I European Commission I international institutions I public debates I politicization

Email: christian.rauh[at]wzb.eu

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Jan Schwalbach is a postdoctoral researcher at the Data Services for the Social Sciences Department at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. His research interests include legislative politics, parliamentary debates, party behaviour and quantitative text analysis. Together with Christian Rauh, he created the ParlSpeech dataset, which contains parliamentary speeches from nine countries over up to thirty years. His works were published in, among others, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, Social Science Computer Review, International Political Science Review, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. His most recent researches focused on party behavior in parliaments, as well as voters’ perception of party communication.

legislative politics I quantitative text analysis I party behaviour

Email: Jan.Schwalbach[at]gesis.org

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Miklós Sebők is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Political Science at Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. He also serves as the principal investigator of the Political and Legal Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (poltextLAB) and research co-director of the Artificial Intelligence National Lab at CSS, Budapest). His research appeared in, inter alia, East European Politics, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, Journal of Legislative Studies, Policy Studies Journal, Political Analysis and Social Science Computer Review. He is the co-editor of “Policy Agendas in Democracy, Autocracy and Hybrid Regimes” (Palgrave, 2021).

legislative studies I political economy I text mining I machine learning

Email: sebok.miklos[at]tk.hun-ren.hu

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Additional team members

  • Gergő Balázs
  • Alexander Dahlheimer
  • Ágnes Dinnyés
  • Péter Gelányi
  • Sandra Hiersemann
  • Rebeka Kiss
  • Eszter Lancsár
  • Asbjørn Lindholm
  • Flynn Schirott
  • Anna Székely
  • Anna Takács
  • Péter Visnovitz