Publications

Stecker, M. & Hopp, F. (2025). Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos Political Analysis,. Open Access Publication, Replication Code

Scharrer, M.E., Gahn, C., Bernhard-Harrer, J., Stecker, M. & Partheymüller, J. (2025). From crisis governance to electoral normality and record-long coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election West European Politics. Open Access Publication

Stecker, M., Balluff, P., Lind, F., Dinhopl, C., Waldherr, A. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2024). Tools of the Trade – When Are Software Tools Mentioned in Computational Text Analysis Research? Computational Communication Research, 6(1). Open Access Publication, Replication Code, Dataset

Stecker, M., & Lind, F. (2025). Knowledge Gap. In Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing. Pre-Print

Work in Progress

  • Identity Effects: The Influence of Party Messages and News Reporting on Party-Group Linkages (submitted)

  • The structure of identity competition - measuring dimensionality and polarisation of social group references by political parties with Fabienne Lind, Hajo G. Boomgaarden & Markus Wagner

  • Group Pressure? The Dynamics of Social Group Appeals in Party Competition with Fabienne Lind, Hajo G. Boomgaarden & Markus Wagner (under review)

  • Paupers in the Papers - The Influence of Media Reporting on Individuals’ Perception of the Negative Moral Consequences of the Welfare State with Jana Bernhard-Harrer & Moritz Sedlatschek

  • Issue-specific dynamics of social media hypes - Investigating the influence of Tweets’ topics on user participation and the issue dynamics of bursting online discussions on Twitter with Klara Langmann & Christopher Arnold

Datasets

Bernhard-Harrer, Jana, Stecker, Marvin, Moritz-Eberl, Jakob, Boomgaarden, Hajo G., Kritzinger, Sylvia & Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz (2026). AUTNES Automatic Content Analysis of the Media Coverage 2024 (SUF edition). https://doi.org/10.11587/HOEXGX

Stecker, Marvin, Baden, Christian, Balluff, Paul, Pipal, Christian, Lind, Fabienne, Schoonvelde, Martijn, Dinhopl, Celina, van der Velden Mariken, Waldherr, Annie, & Boomgaarden, Hajo G.(2024). Data on Software Tools in Computational Text Analysis Research. doi.org./10.17605/OSF.IO/FG6WQ

Reports

Stecker, Marvin, Vukovic, Marta, Kritzinger, Sylvia & Boomgaarden, Hajo G. (2026): Austria’s Democratic Challenge: Illiberal Party in Motion, Citizens in Reply. https://doi.org/10.60644/2kyw-3929