Amusement, Laughter and Applause: Alternative Sources for Ideal Point Estimation?

• In Event: More Than Words: Text Analysis and Parliamentary Debate

Brief Overview

In the plenary legislators have the possibility to react to each other’s speeches. We identify patterns of party competition based on this behavior utilizing a corpus that covers all parliamentary sessions of the German Bundestag from 1949 to 2017.

Authors

• Andreas Blätte, University of Duisburg-Essen

• Marcel Lewandowsky, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg

• Jochen Müller, University of Greifswald

• Christian Stecker, University of Mannheim