🎉 New Open-Access paper in EJPR together with Morten Harmening, Jona Baumert, @martingross.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social & @jvelimsky.bsky.social Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from PQs in German city councils 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475...

@martingross.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @sebastianjblock.bsky.social & @jvelimsky.bsky.social deal with issue emphasis 💡Key findings: 1️⃣More attention to issues where municipalities have more legal leeway 2️⃣Effect is moderated by municipalities' financial constraints doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

🧵 New paper out in EJPR! Morten Harmening, Jona-Frederik Baumert @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @jvelimsky.bsky.social & I examine how parties engage in geographic representation in local politics using parliamentary questions in 12 German city councils. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1475...

I am pleased to share that my article "Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios" has now been published in print in Government and Opposition @govandopp and is freely accessible: 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/gov.... #legislative #accountability #PoliticalScience

Ergebnisse der KoaV-AG „Bildung, Forschung & Innovation“: Was ist drin für #IchBinHanna? Was unklar? Was fehlt? 1 🧵. Tl,dr: 1. Eindruck erfreulich, aber 🐘 im Raum – konkrete Ausgestaltung der Postdoc-Phase zur Schaffung langfristiger Perspektiven – wird nicht ausreichend adressiert. (1/13)

LMs are used to process text from many topics, styles, dialects, etc., but how well do they do? 📈 Evaluating perplexity on just one corpus like C4 doesn't tell the whole story 📉 ✨📃✨ We introduce Paloma, a benchmark of 585 domains from NY Times to r/depression on Reddit.

LLMs generate novel word sequences not contained in their pretraining data. However, compared to humans, models generate significantly fewer novel n-grams. RLHF = 30% *more* copying than base! Awesome work from the awesome Ximing Lu (gloriaximinglu.github.io) et al. 🤩 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.04265

Very happy (and proud b/c it took a loooong time to finalise this paper) to share new research, together with Alejandro Ecker, on how local politicians in 🇩🇪 allocate portfolios. In short, they behave like their counterparts at the federal & state levels: both quant. & qual. considerations matter!

Online first @spsr.bsky.social: Our new article "The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics" (w/ @donyhu.bsky.social @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @jvelimsky.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #polisky /1

I am delighted to see our new paper "Electoral Campaigns and Parliamentary Practice: Do Parties Pursue the Issues They Campaigned On?" out in Swiss Political Science Review as #OpenAccess! @martingross.bsky.social wrote a very nice thread summarizing our findings!

I am extremely happy to see our paper on "The impact of occupational background on issue representation" out @wepsocial.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... The contribution is joint work with my great colleagues @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @martingross.bsky.social & @donyhu.bsky.social

I'm extremely happy to announce that my first single-author paper is now out and open-access at EPSR doi.org/10.1017/S175... I focus on intra-coalition control in mixed regimes, where the control becomes more complex due to a dual executive structure (as shown by @laderafrutal.bsky.social)

I've posted a new short paper called "Practical Advice for Producing Better Graphs" that ... provides practical advice for producing better graphs. 😀 Comments and suggestions welcome. jkastellec.scholar.princeton.edu/document/91

I've written a blog-post showing how to fine-tune a language model for the purposes of (three-way) text classification. It's a (partial) replication of Müller, Temporal Focus of Campaign Communication (JOP 2022). Find it at chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/finetu...

Dive into the world of multilingual text analysis? @haukelicht.bsky.social and I wrote this paper as a first go-to resource for a comprehensive overview of research design considerations. Big thanks to the editors @marikenvelden.bsky.social, Martijn Schoonvelde, Christian Baden of the special issue!