Description: Webpage of Theresa Gessler
democracy, party competition, Hungary; based on text analysis & computational social science.
I am a tenure-track assistant professor (‘Juniorprofessorin’) for Comparative Politics at European University Viadrina . I work on conflicts around democracy, immigration, digitalization and patterns of party competition. Most of my research studies European countries, especially Central-Eastern Europe. Next to classical political science methods, I use (and teach) text-as-data, webscraping and various types of digital trace data in my research. Until July 2022, I was a postdoc in political science at the U
You can find information about me , my research , publications and my teaching profile . If you are interested in my teaching, you can also have a look at my example course on text analysis .