The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments

Figure 3: Heatmap of predicted applause per 1000 words based on a Poisson regression model.
Publication
Andreas Kuepfer, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker, n.d. "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" Manuscript in preparation.
Party Competition Parliamentary Speeches text-as-data Applause
Andreas Kuepfer
Computational Political Scientist

I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Political Science, Technical University of Darmstadt. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.Sc. in Data Science, both from the University of Mannheim, and work at the intersection of the two fields. My research focuses on (multimodal) political communication, combining computational and traditional methods to study party competition and political behaviour. My work has been published in European Journal of Political Research, Political Analysis, and Political Science Research and Methods, among others. During my Ph.D., I conducted research visits at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES, University of Mannheim) and the Centre for AI in Government (CAIG, University of Birmingham).