Research and Current Work

Research

ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test, project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Research and Innovation Actions scheme
We The (Social) Media: Soziale Medien von und für soziale Bewegungen, research project within the Interdisciplinary Data Competence Centre DataNord
Lokale Proteste und Zusammenhalt im europäischen Vergleich [Comparing Local Protest and Social Cohesion across Europe], Research Project within the Research Institute on Social Cohesion (FGZ/RISC)
Global developments in health care systems, Research Project within the Collaborative Research Center 1342 »Global Dynamics of Social Policy«
Research Group Social Conflicts at the SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy
Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung

Previous Research Projects

MARDY: Modeling ARgumentation DYnamics in Political Discourse, Research Project within the SPP RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines
Proteste und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt: Lokale Konfliktdynamiken im Vergleich [Protests and Social Cohesion. Local Conflict Dynamics in Comparison], Research Project within the Research Institute on Social Cohesion (FGZ/RISC)

Recent Publications

Haunss, Sebastian, Priska Daphi, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Lidiya Hristova, Pál Susánszky, and Elias Steinhilper. “PAPEA: A Modular Pipeline for the Automation of Protest Event Analysis.” Political Science Research and Methods, June 23, 2025, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2025.10013.

Luther, Anna Ricarda, Hendrik Heuer, Stephanie Geise, Sebastian Haunss, and Andreas Breiter. “Social Media for Activists: Reimagining Safety, Content Presentation, and Workflows.” In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–18. CHI ’25. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713351.

Meier, Larissa Daria, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Priska Daphi, and Sebastian Haunss. “Resisting the Far-Right: Explaining Divergent Countermobilization Trajectories in Two German Cities.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 30, no. 1 (March 20, 2025): 13–32. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-30-1-13.

Dollbaum, Jan Matti, Larissa Daria Meier, Priska Daphi, and Sebastian Haunss. “Protest Types and Protester Profiles: Testing Meso−micro-Associations between Event Characteristics and Participant Attitudes.” Acta Politica 60 (2025): 621–47. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-024-00345-7.

Daphi, Priska, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Sebastian Haunss, and Larissa Meier. “Local Protest Event Analysis: Providing a More Comprehensive Picture?” West European Politics 48, no. 2 (2025): 449–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2363709.

Haunss, Sebastian, and André Blessing. “Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP.” arXiv, August 25, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.13810.

Wienkoop, Nina-Kathrin, Lisa Bogerts, Marco Bitschnau, Priska Daphi, Sebastian Haunss, Elias Steinhilper, and Simon Teune. “Ohne Demokratie ist alles nichts.” Teilnehmende, Motive und Effekte der Proteste gegen Rechtsextremismus im Juni 2024. Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2024.

Ceron, Tanise, Ana Barić, André Blessing, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa, Sebastian Padó, Sean Papay, and Patricia Zauchner. “Automatic Analysis of Political Debates and Manifestos: Successes and Challenges.” In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Robust Argumentation Machines, 71–84. LNCS. Bielefeld: Springer, 2024. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63536-6_5.

Meier, Larissa, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Priska Daphi, and Sebastian Haunss. “Verdrängung oder Mobilisierung? Eine vergleichende Analyse zur Auswirkung der Protestbewegungen Pegida, Legida und Stuttgart 21 auf urbane Protestaktivitäten.” In Die Grenzen des Zusammenhalts: wie Inklusion und Exklusion zusammenhängen, edited by Axel Salheiser, Maria Alexopoulou, Christian Meier zu Verl, and Alexander Yendell, 119–36. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2024.

Haunss, Sebastian, and James Hollway. “Multimodal Mechanisms of Political Discourse Dynamics and the Case of Germany’s Nuclear Energy Phase-Out.” Network Science 11, no. 2 (June 2023): 205–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2022.31.

Haunss, Sebastian, Priska Daphi, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Jannis Grimm, and Larissa Meier. “Klimaproteste in Deutschland – Wenig Abgrenzung Zwischen Den Protestgruppen.” Berlin: Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung, April 2023. https://protestinstitut.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ipb_Mitteilung_Klimastreik_2023.pdf.

Sommer, Moritz, and Sebastian Haunss. “Grenzen von Protest: Auswertungen von G20-Demonstrationsbefragungen.” In Eskalation. G20 in Hamburg, Protest und Gewalt, edited by Stefan Malthaner and Simon Teune, 121–35. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2023.

Daphi, Priska, Sebastian Haunss, Moritz Sommer, and Simon Teune. “Taking to the Streets in Germany – Disenchanted and Confident Critics in Mass Demonstrations.” German Politics 32, no. 3 (2023): 440–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2021.1998459.

Haunss, Sebastian, Moritz Sommer, and Priska Daphi. “Hintergründe Und Dynamiken Erfolgreicher Mobilisierung: Fridays for Future Aus Sicht Der Bewegungsforschung.” In Fridays for Future. Einordnung, Rezeption Und Wirkung Der Neuen Klimabewegung, edited by Jan Pollex and Anna Soßdorf, 45–64. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2023. https://link.springer.com/book/9783658414467.

Meier, Larissa, Priska Daphi, and Sebastian Haunss. “‘Stoppt Die Kriege - Abrüstung Und Deeskalation Jetzt!’ Eine Befragung Des Ostermarschs in Bielefeld 2022.” Berlin: Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung, 2023. https://protestinstitut.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ipb_WP_2.2023.pdf.

Blokker, Nico, Tanise Ceron, André Blessing, Erenay Dayanik, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa, and Sebastian Padó. “Why Justifications of Claims Matter for Understanding Party Positions,” 2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363700311_Why_Justifications_of_Claims_Matter_for_Understanding_Party_Positions.

Dayanik, Erenay, Andre Blessing, Nico Blokker, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa, and Sebastian Pado. “Improving Neural Political Statement Classification with Class Hierarchical Information.” In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2367–82. Dublin, Ireland: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022. https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.186.

Zajak, Sabrina, and Sebastian Haunss. “The Politics of Alliances. The Making and Breaking of Social Movement Coalitions. Introduction to the Special Issue.” Social Movement Studies 21, no. 1,2 (2022): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2021.1973890.

Haunss, Sebastian. “Protestnetzwerke.” In Gesellschaft Und Politik Verstehen. Frank Nullmeier Zum 65. Geburtstag, edited by Martin Nonhoff, Sebastian Haunss, Tanja Klenk, and Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele, 463–80. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361589113_Protestnetzwerke.

Nonhoff, Martin, Sebastian Haunss, Tanja Klenk, and Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele, eds. Gesellschaft Und Politik Verstehen. Frank Nullmeier Zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2022. https://www.campus.de/produkt-detail/gesellschaft_und_politik_verstehen-17409.html.