Jan Schwalbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 291116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Schwalbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwalbach |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWALBACH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6990-8098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies
Archiving data is a crucial practice, as it ensures reproducibility of research and aligns with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). To facilitate data sharing, it is essential to understand the legal conditions, especially in the form of policies, at the time of data collection. However, these policies can be difficult to locate, change over time, and may even disappear as new policies are introduced. Terms of…
Sharing digital trace data
Over the past decade, research has made rapid progress in the collection and analysis of digital trace data. However, when it comes to sharing data, researchers still face major barriers that often limit or prevent the reproducibility of research results and the reuse of data. Against this backdrop, we identify three broader categories of user challenges, namely researchers’ capacities & incentives, legal & ethical challenges, and technical hurdl…
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research
While survey data has long been the focus of quantitative social science analyses, observational and content data, although long-established, are gaining renewed attention; especially when this type of data is obtained by and for observing digital content and behavior. Today, digital technologies allow social scientists to track “everyday behavior” and to extract opinions from public discussions on online platforms. These new types of digital tra…
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis
Advances in data accessibility and analytical methods opened new frontiers for comparative studies of European legislative activities. However, these advances still need to be fully harnessed by legislative scholars for multiple reasons. We provide an overview of extant research agendas to identify these reasons and explore the opportunities for tapping the potential of big data and quantitative text analysis. We present significant data collecti…
Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data
With the progressing advances in text analysis methods and the increasing accessibility of parliamentary documents, the range of available tools for legislative scholars has increased massively over the past years. While the potential for comparative studies is huge, researchers can easily overlook the pitfalls associated with analyzing these documents. Against this background, I asses which theoretical considerations need to be carefully thought…
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems
In liberal democracies, protest can serve as a trigger for necessary policy reforms, but it can also be used by a loud minority to advance political goals against the will of the majority. Focusing on such vocal protests in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic, we investigate the following question: How does the location of protest events affect the likelihood of political engagement with the protests in a multilevel system? Combining social move…
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems
Voters follow their in-group party no matter what they are talking about. But what if reality is more nuanced? In this study, I ask how the perception of party signals works in multiparty systems and whether voters' trust in the communication medium matters. Thus, I combine party perception research with literature on the influence of trust in different channels to analyse the effects on agreement with a statement and its credibility. Using a sur…
Talking to the Populist Radical Right
In many Western European states, right‐wing populist parties made it into national parliaments. This presents the established parties with the challenge of how to behave towards the new party. While the scholarly literature has focused more on the interaction with the populist radical right in the electoral arena, we know little about how it functions in an institutionally constrained arena such as parliament. This study asks in what way these st…
Bigger’ after all? The Effect of Structural Policy Coordination Authorities on the Multidimensionality of Policy Output
To be ‘bigger on big things’, Jean‐Claude Juncker reformed the European Commission's organizational set‐up by adding another hierarchical layer to its political sphere. Vice‐Presidents shall foster coordination between departmental Commissioners when drafting policies so that these are more multidimensional in kind. Taking an actor‐centred organization theoretical perspective, complemented by principal–agent reasoning, we conceptualize these as s…
Going in circles? The influence of the electoral cycle on the party behaviour in parliament
Most analyses dealing with the interaction of parties in parliament assume their interests to be fixed between elections. However, a rational perspective suggests that parties adapt their behaviour throughout the legislative term. I argue that this change is influenced by incentives and possibilities to shape legislation and the need to distinguish oneself from competitors. While for government parties it matters whether they have to share office…
A Reproduction Analysis of 106 Articles Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, 2016–2018
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Going in circles? The influence of the electoral cycle on the party behaviour in parliament
Most analyses dealing with the interaction of parties in parliament assume their interests to be fixed between elections. However, a rational perspective suggests that parties adapt their behaviour throughout the legislative term. I argue that this change is influenced by incentives and possibilities to shape legislation and the need to distinguish oneself from competitors. While for government parties it matters whether they have to share office…
Talking to the Populist Radical Right
In many Western European states, right‐wing populist parties made it into national parliaments. This presents the established parties with the challenge of how to behave towards the new party. While the scholarly literature has focused more on the interaction with the populist radical right in the electoral arena, we know little about how it functions in an institutionally constrained arena such as parliament. This study asks in what way these st…
Bigger’ after all? The Effect of Structural Policy Coordination Authorities on the Multidimensionality of Policy Output
To be ‘bigger on big things’, Jean‐Claude Juncker reformed the European Commission's organizational set‐up by adding another hierarchical layer to its political sphere. Vice‐Presidents shall foster coordination between departmental Commissioners when drafting policies so that these are more multidimensional in kind. Taking an actor‐centred organization theoretical perspective, complemented by principal–agent reasoning, we conceptualize these as s…
A Reproduction Analysis of 106 Articles Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, 2016–2018
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A Reproduction Analysis of 106 Articles Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, 2016–2018
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Bigger’ after all? The Effect of Structural Policy Coordination Authorities on the Multidimensionality of Policy Output
To be ‘bigger on big things’, Jean‐Claude Juncker reformed the European Commission's organizational set‐up by adding another hierarchical layer to its political sphere. Vice‐Presidents shall foster coordination between departmental Commissioners when drafting policies so that these are more multidimensional in kind. Taking an actor‐centred organization theoretical perspective, complemented by principal–agent reasoning, we conceptualize these as s…
Going in circles? The influence of the electoral cycle on the party behaviour in parliament
Most analyses dealing with the interaction of parties in parliament assume their interests to be fixed between elections. However, a rational perspective suggests that parties adapt their behaviour throughout the legislative term. I argue that this change is influenced by incentives and possibilities to shape legislation and the need to distinguish oneself from competitors. While for government parties it matters whether they have to share office…
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems
Voters follow their in-group party no matter what they are talking about. But what if reality is more nuanced? In this study, I ask how the perception of party signals works in multiparty systems and whether voters' trust in the communication medium matters. Thus, I combine party perception research with literature on the influence of trust in different channels to analyse the effects on agreement with a statement and its credibility. Using a sur…
Talking to the Populist Radical Right
In many Western European states, right‐wing populist parties made it into national parliaments. This presents the established parties with the challenge of how to behave towards the new party. While the scholarly literature has focused more on the interaction with the populist radical right in the electoral arena, we know little about how it functions in an institutionally constrained arena such as parliament. This study asks in what way these st…
Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data
With the progressing advances in text analysis methods and the increasing accessibility of parliamentary documents, the range of available tools for legislative scholars has increased massively over the past years. While the potential for comparative studies is huge, researchers can easily overlook the pitfalls associated with analyzing these documents. Against this background, I asses which theoretical considerations need to be carefully thought…
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems
In liberal democracies, protest can serve as a trigger for necessary policy reforms, but it can also be used by a loud minority to advance political goals against the will of the majority. Focusing on such vocal protests in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic, we investigate the following question: How does the location of protest events affect the likelihood of political engagement with the protests in a multilevel system? Combining social move…
Sharing digital trace data
Over the past decade, research has made rapid progress in the collection and analysis of digital trace data. However, when it comes to sharing data, researchers still face major barriers that often limit or prevent the reproducibility of research results and the reuse of data. Against this backdrop, we identify three broader categories of user challenges, namely researchers’ capacities & incentives, legal & ethical challenges, and technical hurdl…
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research
While survey data has long been the focus of quantitative social science analyses, observational and content data, although long-established, are gaining renewed attention; especially when this type of data is obtained by and for observing digital content and behavior. Today, digital technologies allow social scientists to track “everyday behavior” and to extract opinions from public discussions on online platforms. These new types of digital tra…
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis
Advances in data accessibility and analytical methods opened new frontiers for comparative studies of European legislative activities. However, these advances still need to be fully harnessed by legislative scholars for multiple reasons. We provide an overview of extant research agendas to identify these reasons and explore the opportunities for tapping the potential of big data and quantitative text analysis. We present significant data collecti…
From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies
Archiving data is a crucial practice, as it ensures reproducibility of research and aligns with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). To facilitate data sharing, it is essential to understand the legal conditions, especially in the form of policies, at the time of data collection. However, these policies can be difficult to locate, change over time, and may even disappear as new policies are introduced. Terms of…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Data science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Legislature (3 works)