Faculty Spotlight

PhD alumna Seraphine Maerz and professor Carsten Schneider's co-authored article "Comparing public communication in democracies and autocracies: automated text analyses of speeches by heads of government" scales the (il)liberalism of public discourses including 4740 speeches delivered between 1999 and 2019 from 40 political leaders of 27 countries:

"All tests suggest that our liberalness scale does capture meaningful differences between political regimes despite the large heterogeneity of our data."