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Countering Authoritarian Behavior in Democracies (2024)
Journal Article
Hobolt, S. B., & Osnabrügge, M. (online). Countering Authoritarian Behavior in Democracies. Political Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09971-5

Democratic stability hinges on voters’ commitment to democratic norms, yet there are many examples of voters’ willingness to tolerate politicians who violate such principles. This article examines whether critical responses by other politicians can e... Read More about Countering Authoritarian Behavior in Democracies.

Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach (2024)
Journal Article
Osnabrügge, M., & Vannoni, M. (online). Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach. Political Science Research and Methods, https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2024.21

Several disciplines, such as economics, law, and political science, emphasize the importance of legislative quality, namely well-written legislation. Low-quality legislation cannot be easily implemented because the texts create interpretation problem... Read More about Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach.

Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts (2021)
Journal Article
Osnabrügge, M., Ash, E., & Morelli, M. (2023). Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts. Political Analysis, 31(1), 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.37

We introduce and assess the use of supervised learning in cross-domain topic classification. In this approach, an algorithm learns to classify topics in a labeled source corpus and then extrapolates topics in an unlabeled target corpus from another d... Read More about Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts.

New Zealand: Parliamentary Speeches under a Mixed-Member Proportional Electoral System (2021)
Book Chapter
Osnabrügge, M. (2021). New Zealand: Parliamentary Speeches under a Mixed-Member Proportional Electoral System. In H. Bäck, M. Debus, & J. M. Fernandes (Eds.), The Politics of Legislative Debates (613-632). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849063.003.0030

This chapter studies debate participation in New Zealand’s parliament from 1996 to 2002. New Zealand has a mixed-member proportional electoral system and a multiparty system. Its parliamentary rules and procedures give parties considerable control ov... Read More about New Zealand: Parliamentary Speeches under a Mixed-Member Proportional Electoral System.

Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments (2021)
Journal Article
Osnabrügge, M., Hobolt, S. B., & Rodon, T. (2021). Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments. American Political Science Review, 115(3), 885-899. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055421000356

Research has shown that emotions matter in politics, but we know less about when and why politicians use emotive rhetoric in the legislative arena. This article argues that emotive rhetoric is one of the tools politicians can use strategically to app... Read More about Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments.

Swaying Citizen Support for EU Membership: Evidence from a Survey Experiment of German Voters (2020)
Journal Article
Yordanova, N., Angelova, M., Lehrer, R., Osnabrügge, M., & Renes, S. (2020). Swaying Citizen Support for EU Membership: Evidence from a Survey Experiment of German Voters. European Union Politics, 21(3), 429-450. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116520923735

The United Kingdom’s 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) raised concerns that other countries would follow suit. This article examines how arguments about EU membership related to economic, cultural, political, and security... Read More about Swaying Citizen Support for EU Membership: Evidence from a Survey Experiment of German Voters.