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Currently Junior Researcher at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Previously at Gothenburg University.
I am a Junior Researcher working at the intersection of political science and computational social science. Together with Lea Kaftan, I build a new linkage key infrastructure for political parties across social science datasets. We aim to provide a comprehensive, consistent, and long-term foundation for studying political entities globally and historically.
Before joining GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, I worked in the research project Female Leadership and Effects from African Droughts (Fem‑LEAD) at the University of Gothenburg. I hold a M.A. in Politics and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz.
Political Party Links (PolPaL) is a linkage key infrastructure project for the social sciences. PolPaL provides a unified linkage platform for identifying political entities across social science datasets.
PolPaL, inspired by Party Facts, provides new linkage features, broader metadata, and extended coverage. It offers researchers a comprehensive, consistent, and long-term foundation for studying political entities globally and historically.
Coming Soon →Fem-LEAD seeks to understand the connections between weather-related disasters and women’s political standing in politics in African countries. The project focuses on environmental shocks, public opinion, and political representation.
I prepared geo-coded datasets spanning survey, palaeo-climate, and agriculture data, and collected sub-national data on women's political representation across African countries. For South Africa, I gathered contact details of local politicians, disaster declarations, and newspaper coverage.
Gothenburg University →
Paul Bederke