Articles by Marius Sältzer

March 19, 2021

How tweets can help us make sense of internal party politics

Marius Sältzer

Identifying the different positions of MPs inside the same political parties is a longstanding problem for political science. Daniel Braby and Marius Sältzer argue that applying automated content analysis to MPs' Twitter timelines offers a robust impression of sub-party positions

Marius Sältzer

Doctoral Researcher, University of Mannheim and University of Basel

Marius is mostly interested in intra-party politics and individual politicians in party centered systems.

He uses Natural Language Processing to study how politicians use social media and speeches to position themselves in party politics.

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