Andreas Küpfer
@ankuepfer.bsky.social
Political Science PhD Student @tuda.bsky.social studying multimodal data (text, video, audio), political behaviour and party competition | MSc Data Science (Uni Mannheim) | #firstgen
andreaskuepfer.github.io
andreaskuepfer.github.io
Congrats again, Dylan!
September 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Congrats again, Dylan!
Want to read more details about what we can learn about party competition from applause? Find our open-access 🔓 article here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments
This article studies how applause reflects the dynamics of party competition during parliamentary debates. While legislative scholars often emphasise the selection of speakers and content of debate...
doi.org
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Want to read more details about what we can learn about party competition from applause? Find our open-access 🔓 article here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
What issues do parties pay the most attention to? Applause patterns systematically correlate with issue ownership. (5/6)
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
What issues do parties pay the most attention to? Applause patterns systematically correlate with issue ownership. (5/6)
Besides party unity and exclusion, modelling applause also allows us to analyse important patterns of Ideological (dis)agreement and electoral cycle effects. (4/6)
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Besides party unity and exclusion, modelling applause also allows us to analyse important patterns of Ideological (dis)agreement and electoral cycle effects. (4/6)
Examining pooled party dyads, applause serves as a marker for party unity (diagonal line) and political exclusion (when the far-right AfD speaks, other parties applaud rarely). (3/6)
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Examining pooled party dyads, applause serves as a marker for party unity (diagonal line) and political exclusion (when the far-right AfD speaks, other parties applaud rarely). (3/6)
In our analysis, we utilise more than 750,000 instances of applause spanning over 40 years of speeches in the German Bundestag. (2/6)
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In our analysis, we utilise more than 750,000 instances of applause spanning over 40 years of speeches in the German Bundestag. (2/6)