Bastiaan Bruinsma, Ph.D.

Chair of Political Sciences with a Focus on Qualitative Empirical Social Research
Research Fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6 Room: 2nd floor 157 PEG Building |
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Since 06/2019 |
Research Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, |
05/2019 |
PhD in Political Science & Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence |
07/2014 |
Master of Arts in European Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster Master of Science in European Studies at the Universiteit Twente, Enschede |
07/2012 |
Bachelor of Science in Public Administration at the Universiteit Twente, Enschede |
Research Focus
- Political methodology
- Voting Advice Applications
- Quantitative Text Analysis
Papers
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Bruinsma, Bastiaan & Gemenis, Kostas. (2019). Validating Wordscores: The Promises and Pitfalls of Computational Text Scaling. Communication Methods and Measures. doi:10.1080/19312458.2019.1594741
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Gemenis, Kostas & Bruinsma, Bastiaan & Djouvas, Costas & Manavopoulos, Vasilis & Mendez, Fernando. (2017). Stem-Consult: Voting Advice Application data for the 2017 parliamentary election in the Netherlands. DANS. doi:10.17026/dans-24r-225b
Conferences
2018 |
Evaluating Visualisations in Voting Advice Applications, ECPR General Conference, Hamburg Challenging the Manifesto Project Data Monopoly: A New Database, EPSA General Conference, Vienna The Effect of Question Wording in VAA Questionnaires on their Vote Recommendation, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Nicosia Assessing Online Voting Advice Applications, Graduate Network Conference, Berlin |
2017 |
Assessing the Quality of Questionnaires in Voting Advice Applications, ECPR General Conference, Oslo. Challenging the Manifesto Project data monopoly: Estimating policy position time-series using expert and mass survey data, EPSA General Conference, Milan. |
2015 |
Validating Wordscores, EPSA General Conference, Vienna. |
2014 |
Validating Wordscores for Use in Voting Advice Applications, ECPR General Conference, Glasgow |