Four-year doctoral stipends at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences
Dear colleagues,
the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Bamberg
advertises two doctoral stipends funded by the German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD) to applicants from outside Germany. The stipends are for a
period of up to four years starting in April 2024. They cover a monthly
rate, a travel allowance, health insurance, a study and research allowance
and, if applicable, a family allowance. We seek candidates from political
science, sociology, and educational research who want to work on topics that
fit into the research profile of the Graduate School and the University.
Detailed information on the conditions is available at
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/application/daad-scholarship/.
The deadline for applications is September 15, 2023
We would be grateful if you forwarded the information to interested
students. I am happy to answer questions on the positions and the Graduate
School.
Best regards,
Ulrich (Sieberer)
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sieberer
Chair for Empirical Political Science
Director Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS)
University of Bamberg
Feldkirchenstraße 21
D-96052 Bamberg
Tel.: +49 (0)951 863 2805
Email: mailto:ulrich.sieberer@uni-bamberg.de
ulrich.sieberer@uni-bamberg.de
Web: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/emppol www.uni-bamberg.de/emppol
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NEW PUBLICATIONS:
Klüser, K. Jonathan/Schmuck, David/Sieberer, Ulrich, 2023, Colleagues or
adversaries: Ministerial coordination across party lines, Governance, doi:
10.1111/gove.12784
Meyer, Thomas M./Sieberer, Ulrich/Schmuck, David, 2023, Rebuilding the
coalition ship at sea. How uncertainty and complexity drive the reform of
portfolio design in coalition cabinets, West European Politics, doi:
10.1080/01402382.2023.2169512.
Sieberer, Ulrich, 2022, Der Bundestag als Arena: Institutionelle Macht,
Akteursanreize und selektive Nutzungsmuster, in: Lisa H. Anders/Dorothee
Riese (eds.), Politische Akteure und Institutionenen in Deutschland. Eine
forschungsorientierte Einführung in das politische System, Wiesbaden:
Springer, 135154.
Hohendorf, Lukas/Sieberer, Ulrich, 2022, Parteienwettbewerb im Bundestag
nach dem Einzug der AfD und während der Corona-Krise: eine Analyse
namentlicher Abstimmungen, Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 53(2), 261
286, doi: 10.5771/0340-1758-2022-2-261.
Sieberer, Ulrich/Höhmann, Daniel, 2022, Do party system parameters explain
differences in legislative organization? Fragmentation, polarization, and
the density of regulation in European parliaments, 19452009, Party Politics
28(4), 597-610, doi: 10.1177/13540688211002490.
Dear colleagues,
We invite submissions to the workshop on "Studying Central-Eastern European Politics in the Age of AI – A Workshop on Data and Methods". The workshop will take place in Budapest on November 23-24. Please find details below and in the attachment. Should you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.
Best regards,
Miklos Sebok
Miklós SEBŐK, Ph.D.
Senior research fellow
Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
tk.hu/en
Principal investigator
poltextlab.comhttp://poltextlab.com/
E-mail: sebok.miklos@tk.hu
+36 30 434 2356
New research:
Sebők M., R Kiss, I Járay (2023). Introducing HUNCOURT: A New Open Legal Database Covering the Decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court for Between 1990 and 2021https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=79Cx-j8AAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=79Cx-j8AAAAJ:SpbeaW3--B0C Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 1-34
Sebők, M., R Kiss, Á Kovács (2023). The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backslidinghttps://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=79Cx-j8AAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=79Cx-j8AAAAJ:PoWvk5oyLR8C Parliamentary Affairs, 1-32
Sebők, M., M. Balázs, Á, & Molnár, C. (2022). Punctuated equilibrium and progressive friction in socialist autocracy, democracy and hybrid regimes. Journal of Public Policy, 1-23. https://bit.ly/3yNfAHr
Sebők, M., Kubik, B., Molnár, Cs., Járay, I., Székely, A. (2022), Measuring legislative stability – A new approach with data from Hungary, European Political Science
https://bit.ly/3Lzboh9
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite scholars from various fields (including politics, communication, linguistics, legal etc.) to submit their proposals related to data and methods-related presentations with a focus on Central-Eastern Europe. We are particularly interested in presentations relying on a text-as-data framework (Cardie and Wilkerson, 2008; Monroe and Schrodt, 2008; Wilkerson and Casas, 2017; Grimmer and Stewart, 2013), and those applying cutting-edge quantitative and/or artificial intelligence-supported methodology to quantify and evaluate policy agendas in the region (see e.g. studies associated with the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP), following the research agenda presented in Baumgartner, Breunig, and Grossman (2019).
Data presentations will mainly focus on collections featuring text data from 1990 on (although historical datasets will also be considered) including parliamentary, executive/presidential/government/policy documents, print, online, and social media, as well as archives related to the constitutional/legal agenda. Methods presentations will primarily review work related to the collection, hosting, cleaning/processing, and analysis (including machine learning and large language models) of textual data as well as linguistic issues concerning the region.
Only submissions explicitly addressing the data collection and/or methodology of the research project will be assessed. We welcome presentations on ongoing projects and work-in-progress, as well as already published work and data repositories.
The workshop is organized by poltextLAB (poltextlab.comhttp://poltextlab.com/) at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest. Organising committee: Rebeka Kiss, Ákos Máté, Csaba Molnár, Orsolya Ring, Miklós Sebők.
Duration: 1pm, November 23rd (Thursday), - 1pm, November 24th (Friday)
Venue: Centre for Social Sciences, 4 Tóth Kálmán utca, Budapest 1097 (Google Mapshttps://goo.gl/maps/Xi7wW9KhBXjzkn6g7)
Target Audience: Both senior scholars and PhD/postdoctoral level participants
Participation: Accepted participants are expected to do a 10-minute presentation on their data and/or methodological work and serve as chairs/discussants.
The application form is available here: https://forms.gle/5sciQDGAAKyS1NJy9
The submission deadline for proposals is September 30, 2023. Applicants will be notified on an ongoing basis, but no later than October 6, 2023.
The registration fee and the workshop dinner for all accepted presenters are kindly sponsored by our partners: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, MORES (Horizon Europe), V-SHIFT Momentum Research Group (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory of Hungary, the COMPTEXT Conference (comptextconference.orghttp://comptextconference.org/) and the Visegrád Fund.
There are a limited number of travel grants available for one presenting author per paper for economy flights, train or bus rides, and for one night of accommodation. Please indicate on the submission form if you would like to be considered for the travel grant. Please keep in mind that we can offer a limited number of travel grants, and we apply a first come, first served policy for accepted proposals.
Please contact Laura Seben for additional information at lauraanna.seben@tk.humailto:lauraanna.seben@tk.hu.