Doing Quantitative Text Analysis with R: Scraping, Preparing, Visualising and Modelling Data
Julian Bernauer. 2025. London: SAGE.
Publications
Books, journal articles, and book chapters
Books
Democracy and Power Diffusion: Institutions, Deliberation and Outcomes
Julian Bernauer and Adrian Vatter. 2019. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ethnic Politics, Regime Support and Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe
Julian Bernauer. 2015. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Conference Presentations (selected)
A Protective Belt for Democracy: How Configurations of Political Institutions Can Impede Democratic Backsliding
Bernauer, Julian, Rahel Freiburghaus (2025). 1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference 2025: The Future of Democracy?, October 8-10 2025.
Bridging the Gap Between User and Hardware: Research-Ready AI Infrastructure for the Social Sciences
Bernauer, Julian (2025). Annual Meeting DVPW Section Methods of Political Science, Mannheim, 27-28 March 2025.
Measuring Populism From Party Manifestos With Multilingual Context-Sensitive BERT
Bernauer, Julian, João Areal, Ruben L. Bach (2025). Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW), Geneva, 9-10 January 2025.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
20) Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty
Breznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Hung H.V. Nguyen, […], Julian Bernauer et al. 2022. PNAS 119(44).
19) Supply and Demand of Populism: A Quantitative Text Analysis of Cantonal SVP Manifestos
Storz, Anna and Julian Bernauer. 2018. In: Anke Tresch, Nathalie Giger and Line Rennwald (eds): The 2015 Swiss Elections. Swiss Political Science Review 24(4): 525-544.
18) The Halo Effect: Perceptions of Diffuse Threat and SVP Vote Share
Martig, Noemi and Julian Bernauer. 2018. [Invited Translated Reprint of Martig and Bernauer (2016).] World Political Science.
17) Party Unity in Federal Disunity: Determinants of Decentralised Policy-Seeking in Switzerland
Mueller, S., & Bernauer, J. 2017. West European Politics 41(3): 565–593.
16) Conflict, Choice or Geography? Explaining Patterns of Democracy in Continental Europe
Bernauer, Julian, and Adrian Vatter. 2017. European Journal of Political Research 56(2): 251-278.
15) I the People? Self-Interest and Demand for Government Responsiveness
Rosset, Jan, Nathalie Giger and Julian Bernauer. 2017. In: Peter Essaiasson and Christopher Wlezien (eds): Advances in the Study of Democratic Responsiveness. Comparative Political Studies 50(6): 794-821.
14) Der Halo-Effekt: Diffuses Bedrohungsempfinden und SVP-Wahlerfolg
Martig, Noemi and Julian Bernauer. 2016. Swiss Political Science Review 22(3): 385-408.
13) An Ever Closer Union? The Nationalisation of Political Parties in Switzerland, 1991-2015
Mueller, Sean, Daniel Bochsler and Julian Bernauer. 2016. Swiss Political Science Review 22(1): 29-40.
12) Taking the Multidimensionality of Democracy Seriously: Institutional Patterns and the Quality of Democracy
Bernauer, Julian, Marc Bühlmann, Adrian Vatter and Micha Germann. 2016. European Political Science Review 8(3): 473-494.
11) Consenting to Exclude? Empirical Patterns of Democracy and Immigrant Integration Policy
Manatschal, Anita and Julian Bernauer. 2016. West European Politics 39(2): 183-204.
10) Mind the Gap. Do Electoral Systems Foster a More Equal Representation of Women and Men, Poor and Rich?
Bernauer, Julian, Nathalie Giger and Jan Rosset. 2015. International Political Science Review 36(1): 78–98.
9) More Money, Less Problems? Cross-Level Effects of Economic Deprivation on Political Representation
Jan Rosset, Nathalie Giger and Julian Bernauer. 2013. West European Politics 36(4): 817–35. [Winning article for the "Nachwuchspreis der SAGW"]
8) Loyal to the Game? Strategic Policy Representation in Mixed Electoral Systems
Bernauer, Julian and Simon Munzert. 2014. In Daniel Bochsler and Julian Bernauer (eds): Strategic Incentives in Unconventional Electoral Systems. Representation 50(1): 83-97.
7) Strategic Incentives in Unconventional Electoral Systems: Introduction to the Special Issue
Bochsler, Daniel and Julian Bernauer. 2014. In: Daniel Bochsler and Julian Bernauer (eds): Strategic Incentives in Unconventional Electoral Sytems. Representation 50(1): 1–12.
6) A Global Trend towards Democratic Convergence? A Lijphartian Analysis of Advanced Democracies
Vatter, Adrian, Matthew Flinders and Julian Bernauer. 2014. Comparative Political Studies 47(6): 903–29.
5) Can't Get No Satisfaction with the Westminster Model? Winners, Loser, and the Effects of Consensual and Direct Democratic Institutions on Satisfaction with Democracy
Bernauer, Julian and Adrian Vatter. 2012. European Journal of Political Research 51(4): 435–68.
4) The Poor Political Representation of the Poor in a Comparative Perspective
Giger, Nathalie, Jan Rosset and Julian Bernauer. 2012. In: Zoe Lefkofridi, Nathalie Giger and Kathrin Kissau (eds): Inequality and Representation in Europe. Representation 48(1): 47–61.
3) Electoral Entry and Success of Ethnic Minority Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: A Hierarchical Selection Model
Bernauer, Julian and Daniel Bochsler. 2011. Electoral Studies 30(4): 738–55.
2) The Missing Dimension of Democracy. Institutional Patterns in 25 EU Member States between 1997 and 2006
Vatter, Adrian and Julian Bernauer. 2009. European Union Politics 10(3): 335–59.
1) Intra-Party Preference Heterogeneity and Faction Membership in the 15th German Bundestag. A Computational Text Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches
Bernauer, Julian and Thomas Bräuninger. 2009. German Politics 18(3): 385–402.
Special Issue Co-Editor
Strategic Incentives in Unconventional Electoral Systems
Bochsler, Daniel and Julian Bernauer (eds). 2014. Special Issue, Representation 50(1).
Book Chapters
Power Concentration and Power Diffusion: A New Typology of Political-Institutional Patterns of Democracy
Bernauer, Julian, Adrian Vatter and Rahel Freiburghaus (Eds.). 2024. In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Democracy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 410-428.
Aus der Balance? Das Verhältnis von Parlament und Regierung im internationalen Vergleich
Flick, Martina and Julian Bernauer. 2018. In Adrian Vatter (ed.): Das Parlament in der Schweiz, Zürich: Verlag NZZ, pp. 425-454.
Einheit in der Vielfalt? Ausmass und Gründe der Nationalisierung von Schweizer Parteien
Bernauer, Julian and Sean Mueller. 2015. In Markus Freitag and Adrian Vatter (eds): Wahlen und Wählerschaft in der Schweiz, Zürich: Verlag NZZ, pp. 325-354.
New Patterns of Democracy in the Countries of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems 2
Bernauer, Julian, Adrian Vatter and Nathalie Giger. 2014. In Jacques Thomassen (ed.): Elections and Representative Democracy, Representation and Accountability, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 20–37.
Ethnicity and Strategic Voting in the 1998 Ukrainian Elections
Bernauer, Julian. 2013. In: Julien Danero, Nenad Stojanovic and Sharon Weinblum (eds): New Nation-States and National Minorities, Essex: ECPR Press, pp. 209–229.