Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
2022.
“The Temporal Focus of Campaign Communication.” The Journal of Politics 84(1): 585–590.
– Best Paper Award, Manifesto Corpus Conference (2018)
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2022.
“Social Media and Political Agenda Setting.” Political Communication 39(1): 39–60 (with Fabrizio Gilardi, Theresa Gessler, and Maël Kubli).
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2022.
“Voter Expectations of Government Formation in Coalition Systems: The Importance of the Information Context.” European Journal of Political Research 61(1): 111–133 (with Shaun Bowler and Gail McElroy).
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2022.
“Building Research Infrastructures to Study Digital Technology and Politics: Lessons from Switzerland.” PS: Political Science & Politics 55(2): 354–359 (with Fabrizio Gilardi, Lucien Baumgartner, Clau Dermont, Karsten Donnay, Theresa Gessler, Maël Kubli, and Lucas Leemann).
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2021.
“Gender, Candidate Emotional Expression, and Voter Reactions During Televised Debates.” American Political Science Review 115(4): 1242–1257 (with Constantine Boussalis, Travis G. Coan, and Mirya R. Holman).
– Walter Lippmann Best Article of the Year Award, APSA Political Communication Section (2022)
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2021.
“Issue Ownership and Agenda Setting in the 2019 Swiss National Elections.” Swiss Political Science Review online first (with Fabrizio Gilardi, Theresa Gessler, and Maël Kubli).
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2021.
“Evidence for the Irrelevance of Irrelevant Events.” Political Science Research and Methods online first (with Liam Kneafsey).
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2021.
“Are Irish Voters Moving to the Left?” Irish Political Studies 36(4): 535–555 (with Aidan Regan).
– Best Paper Award, PSAI Annual Conference (Elizabeth Meehan Prize, 2021)
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2021.
“The Incumbency Advantage in Second-Order PR Elections: Evidence from the Irish Context, 1942–2019.” Electoral Studies 71: 102331 (with Michael Jankowski).
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2021.
“Social Media and Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Switzerland.” Swiss Political Science Review 27(2): 243–256 (with Fabrizio Gilardi, Theresa Gessler, and Maël Kubli).
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2020.
“Media Coverage of Campaign Promises Throughout the Electoral Cycle.” Political Communication 37(5): 696–718.
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2020.
“The Electoral Cycle Effect in Parliamentary Democracies.” Political Science Research and Methods 8(4): 795–802 (with Tom Louwerse).
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2020.
“Campaigns and the Selection of Policy-Seeking Representatives.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 45(3): 397–431 (with Shaun Bowler and Gail McElroy).
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2019.
“Do Voters Really Prefer More Choice? Determinants of Support for Personalised Electoral Systems.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 29(2): 262–281 (with Michael Jankowski).
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2018.
“quanteda: An R Package for the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data.” Journal of Open Source Software 3(30): 774 (with Kenneth Benoit, Kohei Watanabe, Haiyan Wang, Paul Nulty, Adam Obeng, and Akitaka Matsuo).
– Winner of the Society for Political Methodology Statistical Software Award (2020)
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2018.
“Voter Preferences and Party Loyalty under Cumulative Voting: Political Behaviour after Electoral Reform in Bremen and Hamburg.” Electoral Studies 51: 93–102 (with Shaun Bowler and Gail McElroy).
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2018.
“Assessing the Influence of Neutral Grounds on Match Outcomes.” International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport 18(6): 892–905 (with Liam Kneafsey).
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Other Publications
2022.
Quanteda Tutorials (with Kohei Watanabe). https://tutorials.quanteda.io.
