Dr. Julian Bernauer

I'm a Researcher and IT Staff at the MZES, University of Mannheim, Germany since August 2017. I have previously worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Bern (2012-2017) and carried out my doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz (finished in 2012), where I have also studied Politics and Public Management (Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft) between 2001 and 2006.

Here you'll find information on my research and teaching in political science and methodology. I'm interested in political institutions, representation, political behaviour and quantitative methods. Currently, my focus is on the quantitative analysis of political texts and the measurement and politics of populism. Earlier projects have studied the character of political systems in terms of their institutional setup and the role of descriptive representation in ethnic politics.

The Journey

2022-10-28: Massive replication study with 100+ co-authors published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS): "Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty". Online Access.

2021-03-01: Start of one-year BMBF-funded research project "Bedeutung des institutionellen Kontexts für Studienabbruch und Langzeitstudium" at the MZES (BiK) in cooperation with the DZHW (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies) and the University of Hannover. Local subproject: "Institutioneller Kontext Landes- und Hochschulebene".

2020-07-01: Move to a permanent position as IT Staff and Researcher at the MZES.

2019-May: Cambridge University Press publishes Julian Bernauer and Adrian Vatter. Democracy and Power Diffusion: Institutions, Deliberation and Outcomes.

2018-10-10: Research project "Textual Measures of Populism (TEMPOP) for the Analysis of Party Competition and Political Behaviour" accepted for inclusion into the MZES Research Programme

2018-09-19: Joining the Editorial Board of the International Political Science Review (IPSR)

2018-06-05: Contract signed with SAGE to write the textbook Doing Quantitative Text Analysis with R: Scraping, Preparing, Visualising and Modelling Data.

2017-08-01: Moved from a "Oberassistenz" with Prof. Adrian Vatter at the University of Bern to a position as a Research Fellow in the Data and Methods Unit at the MZES

2014-07-23: Interview with the University of Bern Online Magazine on Research and Work-Life

2013-09-12: Blog post on the unequal representation of rich and poor for LSE EUROPP (with Jan Rosset and Nathalie Giger)