Paul Bederke
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Paul Bederke

Currently Junior Researcher at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Previously at Gothenburg University.

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About

I am a Junior Researcher working at the intersection of political science and data science. My work examines the appearance and linkage of political parties across social science datasets.

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.

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Research

PolPaL

Ongoing · with Lea Kaftan

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.

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Publications

Working papers

  1. 2026
    Nationalist Parties and Transnational Cleavages. Christina Zuber, Paul Bederke, & Edina Szöcsik. Under review.

Preprint

  1. 2023
    Harmonizing and linking party information: The ESS as an example of complex data linking (v0.1). Paul Bederke, & Holger Döring. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10061174

On-Going Work

  1. 2026
    Linking Political Parties Across Time and Space: Introducing Political Party Links (PolPaL). Paul Bederke, Lea Kaftan, Jakob Mansius, & Selcuk Timur Uluer. last presented at WhoGov Workshop 2025.
  2. 2026
    Linking Political Parties Across Time and Space: Introducing Political Party Links (PolPaL). Paul Bederke, Lea Kaftan, & Selcuk Timur Uluer.
  3. 2025
    EPAC 2023 – A Dataset on Ethnonationalism in Party Competition. Christina Zuber, Paul Bederke, & Edina Szöcsik.
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Curriculum vitæ

Experience

Since 2025
Junior Researcher, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
2024–2025
Associate Researcher, University of Gothenburg
2022–2024
Researcher Assistant, University of Konstanz
2018–2021
Student Research Assistant , University of Bremen
2020
Research Intern (V-Dem Institute), University of Gothenburg

Education

2025
M.A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz.
2021
B.A. in Political Science, University of Bremen.

Grants

2024
OSCARS 1st Open Call, Project: 01‑415‑Harmony in the Democratic Ideological Space (HarDIS). Project application together with Lea Kaftan, Sebastian Ziaja, and Alexia Katsanidou. €250.000.

Volunteer work

Since 2020
Project Coordinator. Party Facts (https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/)

Download full CV (PDF)

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Contact

The best way to reach me is by email at paul.bederke@gesis.org.