Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Comparative Political Behavior

Teaching Winter Semester 2022/23


In the winter semester 2022/23 we offer the following courses:

 

Heike Klüver

Heike Klüver:

 
Politisches Verhalten im Vergleich (Kolloquium)

 

Studies: Bachelor, Master and PhD Social Sciences

Dates:    Tue 10:00 to 12:00, weekly

Room:    003

 

Quantitative Text Analysis in Political Behaviour


Studies: Master Social Sciences

Dates:    Wed 10:00 to 12:00, weekly

Room:    217

This seminar will provide you with an overview of quantitative text analysis methods that allow you to systematically extract information from political texts. The seminar will combine more traditional approaches such as manual hand-coding with recent advances in political methodology that treat words as data. The seminar will begin with important concepts in content analysis such as content validity and intercoder reliability. We will afterwards take a closer look at manual coding approaches such as the Manifesto Project before turning to computer-assisted dictionary-based text analysis techniques. This will be followed by an extensive discussion of Wordscores and Wordfish, two cutting-edge techniques that allow you to automatically extract policy positions from political texts. Finally, we will deal with document classification and learn how to automatically classify texts into categories such as classifying thousands of press releases into policy areas. The seminar will combine theoretical sessions with practical exercises to allow participants to immediately apply the presented techniques.

 

 

Research Seminar Demography, Democracy and Public Policy

 

Studies: PhD students Social Sciences

Dates:    Mon 10:00 to 12:00, weekly

Room:    205

 

 

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Tim Wappenhans:

 
Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft und Internationale Beziehungen (Grundkurs)

 

Studies: Bachelor Social Sciences

Dates:    Tue 10:00 to 12:00, weekly (group 1)

Room:    001
 
R for Political Science

 

Studies: Bachelor Social Sciences

Dates:    Wed 12:00 to 14:00, weekly

Room:    203

 

 

 

Violeta Haas

 

Violeta Haas:

 

Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft und Internationale Beziehungen (Grundkurs)

 

Studies: Bachelor Social Sciences

Dates:    Thu 16:00 to 18:00, weekly (group 8)

Room:    205

 

 

 

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António Valentim:

 
Causal Inference in R

 

Studies: Master Social Sciences

Dates:    Fri + Sat 14:00 to 18:00 (02.12.-03.12.2022)

              Fri + Sat 14:00 to 18:00 (08.12.-09.12.2022)

Room:    217
 
Environmental Politics

 

Studies: Master Social Sciences

Dates:    Fri + Sat 9:00 to 12:00 (28.10.-29.10.2022)

              Fri + Sat 9:00 to 12:00 (04.11.-05.11.2022)

Room:    001

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Cornelius Erfort:

 

Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft und Internationale Beziehungen (Grundkurs)

 

Studies: Bachelor Social Sciences

Dates:    Wed 12:00 to 14:00, weekly (group 2)

Room:    001