Publications

The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse

Tobias Widmann
Published in The Journal of Politics (2025)
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When Do Political Parties Moralize? A Cross-National Study of the Use of Moral Language in Political Communication on Immigration

Kristina B. Simonsen & Tobias Widmann
Published in British Journal of Political Science (2025)
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Setting the Tone. The Diffusion of Moral and Moral-Emotional Appeals in Political and Public Discourse

Tobias Widmann & Kristina B. Simonsen
Published in Political Science Research & Methods (2025)
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The Evolution of Global Cleavages: A Historical Analysis of Territorial and Functional World Alignments Based on Automated Text Analysis, 1843−2020

Daniele Caramani, Siyana Gurova & Tobias Widmann
Published in Comparative Political Studies (2025)
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The effect of temperature on language complexity: Evidence from seven million parliamentary speeches

Risto Conte Keivabu & Tobias Widmann
Published in iScience (2025)
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Creating and Comparing Dictionary, Word Embedding, and Transformer-based Models to Measure Discrete Emotions in German Political Text

Published in Political Analysis (2022)
Political Analysis (with Maximilian Wich)
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Creating and Comparing Dictionary, Word Embedding, and Transformer-based Models to Measure Discrete Emotions in German Political Text

Fear, Hope, and COVID-19. Emotional Elite Rhetoric and Its Impact on the Public During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Published in Political Psychology (2022)
Political Psychology
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Fear, Hope, and COVID-19. Emotional Elite Rhetoric and Its Impact on the Public During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Does Radical-Right Success Make the Political Debate More Negative? Evidence from Emotional Rhetoric in German State Parliaments

Published in Political Behavior (2021)
Political Behavior (with Vicente Valentim)
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Does Radical-Right Success Make the Political Debate More Negative? Evidence from Emotional Rhetoric in German State Parliaments

How Emotional Are Populists Really? Factors Explaining Emotional Appeals in the Communication of Political Parties

Published in Political Psychology (2021)
Political Psychology
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How Emotional Are Populists Really? Factors Explaining Emotional Appeals in the Communication of Political Parties