Research and Current Work

Research

MARDY: Modeling ARgumentation DYnamics in Political Discourse, Research Project within the SPP RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines
Global developments in health care systems, Research Project within the Collaborative Research Center 1342 »Global Dynamics of Social Policy«
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)
Research Group Social Conflicts at the SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy
Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung

Recent Publications

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, May 8, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-024-00345-7.

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.

Daphi, Priska, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Sebastian Haunss, and Larissa Meier. “Local Protest Event Analysis: Providing a More Comprehensive Picture?” West European Politics, no. Published online: 21 Jun 2024 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2363709.

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.

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.

Wiedemann, Gregor, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Sebastian Haunss, Priska Daphi, and Larissa Daria Meier. “A Generalized Approach to Protest Event Detection in German Local News.” In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 3883–91. Marseille, 2022. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/pdf/2022.lrec-1.413.pdf.

Haunss, Sebastian. “Spuren Des Protests in Bremen.” In Politik Und Regieren in Bremen, edited by Lothar Probst, Andreas Klee, and Matthias Güldner, 413–34. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359055390_Spuren_des_Protests_in_Bremen.

Polte, Alexander, Sebastian Haunss, Achim Schmid, Gabriela de Carvalho, and Heinz Rothgang. “The Emergence of Healthcare Systems.” In Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion: Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies, edited by Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe, and Helen Seitzer, 111–38. Cham: Palgrave, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83403-6_5.

Daphi, Priska, Sebastian Haunss, Moritz Sommer, and Simon Teune. “Taking to the Streets in Germany – Disenchanted and Confident Critics in Mass Demonstrations.” German Politics 0, no. 0 (December 7, 2021): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2021.1998459.

Dayanik, Erenay, Andre Blessing, Nico Blokker, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa, and Sebastian Padó. “Using Hierarchical Class Structure to Improve Fine-Grained Claim Classification.” In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP (SPNLP 2021), 53–60. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.spnlp-1.6.

Haunss, Sebastian. “Protestthemen Im Wandel Der Zeit.” In Protest. Deutschland 1949–2020, edited by Martin Langebach, 80–95. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2021.