Dear colleagues, We are hiring one PhD researcher and one Postdoctoral researcher for our project “Courts under pressure: How social media change discourse on the rule of law <https://www.ipw.uni-hannover.de/de/forschung/vergleichende-regierungslehre-und-politisches-system-deutschlands-comparative-and-german-politics/research-projects-forschungsprojekte/>” at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. The project analyses elite discourses on high courts in four European countries by using large-scale web data collection and automated text analysis of print media content and social media use by political actors. We are looking for applicants with a very good knowledge of quantitative methods and an interest in automatic text analysis. Deadline: 18 July 2021 Interviews: Early August 2021 Start date: 01 October 2021 For further information on the positions, please see the attached pdfs or the links below: 1) PhD position (65%, 3 years) https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/4370/ <https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/4370/> 2) Postdoc position (100%, 3 years) https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/4372/ <https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/4372/> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Prof. Christoph Hönnige (c.hoennige@ipw.uni-hannover.de). More information about the project can be found here <https://www.ipw.uni-hannover.de/de/forschung/vergleichende-regierungslehre-und-politisches-system-deutschlands-comparative-and-german-politics/research-projects-forschungsprojekte/>. Project team: Prof. Christoph Hönnige (Leibniz University Hannover) Dr. Philipp Köker (Leibniz University Hannover) Prof. Dominic Nyhuis (UNC Chapel Hill) ___________________________________________ Dr Philipp Köker BA (Mannheim) MA PhD (UCL) FHEA Postdoctoral Research Fellow Leibniz University Hannover Department of Political Science Chair in Comparative Government and German Politics Schneiderberg 50 30167 Hannover, Germany +49 (0) 511 762 4917 p.koeker@ipw.uni-hannover.de www.philippkoeker.com @PhilippKoeker Associate Editor, SN Social Sciences - www.springer.com/journal/43545 Deputy Editor, Presidential Power Blog - www.presidential-power.net