Research

Andreas Kuepfer (2026). Performing for an Absent Audience? Vocal Arousal in High-Profile European Parliament Debates.

Christian Arnold, Andreas Kuepfer, Christian Stecker (2026). Far-Right Speeches and Emotional Contagion in Parliament: Sequential and Multimodal Evidence from Germany.

Andreas Kuepfer, Jochen Müller, Christian Stecker (2026). The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments. Kuepfer, Andreas, Jochen Müller, and Christian Stecker. 2026. “The Sound of Party Competition: How Applause Reflects Unity, Disagreement, and the Electoral Cycle in Parliaments.” West European Politics 49 (7): 1797–1823. doi: 10.1080/01402382.2025.2549149..

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Christian Arnold, Andreas Kuepfer, Oliver Rittmann, Michelle Torres (2025). Measuring Media Slant through Image Analysis.

Andreas Kuepfer (2025). Eye Contact and Power: Gender, Seniority, and Public Attention in Parliament (R&R at The Journal of Politics).

Christine Sheldon, Andreas Kuepfer, Christian Arnold (2025). When Words Divide: MPs as Polarisation Entrepreneurs on the Digital Civic Platform abgeordnetenwatch.de.

Mirya Holman, Andreas Kuepfer, Tyler Simko (2025). A Pipeline for Extracting Data from Videos of Complex Events (R&R at Political Analysis).

Andreas Kuepfer, Christian Arnold (2025). Introducing Workflow Management to Computational Social Science.

Elias Koch, Andreas Kuepfer (2025). The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament. Elias Koch and Andreas Kuepfer, n.d. "The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament" Manuscript in preparation..

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Andreas Kuepfer (2024). Nonrandom Tweet Mortality and Data Access Restrictions: Compromising the Replication of Sensitive Twitter Studies. Kuepfer, Andreas. 2024. “Nonrandom Tweet Mortality and Data Access Restrictions: Compromising the Replication of Sensitive Twitter Studies.” Political Analysis: 1–14. doi: 10.1017/pan.2024.7..

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Christian Arnold, Luka Biedebach, Andreas Kuepfer, Marcel Neunhoeffer (2023). The Role of Hyperparameters in Machine Learning Models and How to Tune Them. Arnold, Christian, Luka Biedebach, Andreas Kuepfer, and Marcel Neunhoeffer. 2024. “The Role of Hyperparameters in Machine Learning Models and How to Tune Them.” Political Science Research and Methods: 1–8. doi: 10.1017/psrm.2023.61..

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Christian Arnold, Andreas Kuepfer (2023). Structuring Quantitative Image Analysis with Object Prominence (R&R at Political Analysis). Christian Arnold and Andreas Kuepfer, n.d. "Structuring Quantitative Image Analysis with Metric Depth" Manuscript in preparation..

Christian Arnold, Andreas Kuepfer (2023). Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data (Under Review). Christian Arnold and Andreas Kuepfer, n.d. "How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data" Manuscript in preparation..