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."

Assistant professor, Attila Folsz was interviewed by MA student Tali Akuka to the Argentinian site Nuevos Papeles. 

In this report, he reviews current issues affecting the European Union and the challenges the European continent is facing when it comes to integration between countries and the elimination of border barriers.