Simon Munzert
Lecturer
Political Data Science
Hertie School of Governance
Germany
Biography
Simon Munzert is a Lecturer in Political Data Science at the Hertie School of Governance He is the principal investigator of an international cooperation project funded by the VolkswagenStiftung entitled "Paying Attention to Attention: Media Exposure and Opinion Formation in an Age of Information Overload", and the recipient of a postdoctoral scholarship awarded by the Daimler and Benz Foundation. He received his Doctoral Degree in Political Science from the University of Konstanz.
Research Interest
His research interests include public opinion, political representation, and the use of new media in politics.
Publications
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Peter Selb and Simon Munzert. 2013. “Voter Overrepresentation, Vote Misreporting and Hertie School of Governance | Understand Today. Shape Tomorrow. Turnout Bias in Postelection Surveys.†Electoral Studies 32(1): 186 – 196
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Peter Selb, Michael Herrmann, Simon Munzert, Thomas Schübel, and Susumu Shikano. 2013 “Forecasting Runoff Elections Using Candidate Evaluations From First Round Exit Polls.†International Journal of Forecasting 29: 541 – 547.
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Simon Munzert and Paul Bauer. 2013. “Political Depolarization in German Public Opinion, 1980 – 2010.†Political Science Research and Methods 1(1): 67 – 89. Win ner of the ALLBUS Award 2015 for the best paper published using data from the German G eneral So cial Survey, awarded by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
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Julian Bernauer and Simon Munzert. 2014. “Loyal to the Game? Strategic Policy Representation in Mixed Electoral Systems.†Representation 50(1): 83 – 97.
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Michael Herrmann, Simon Munzert, and Peter Selb. 2016. “Determining the Effect of Strategic Voting on Election Results.†Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) 179(2): 583 – 605.
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Peter Selb and Simon Munzert. 2016. “Forecasting the 2013 Bundestag Election Using Many Polls and Historical Election Results.†German Politics 25(1): 73 – 83
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Simon Munzert and Peter Selb. 2017. “Measuring Political Knowledge in Web - Based Surveys: An Experimental Validation of Visual versus Verbal Instruments.†Social Science Computer Re view 25(2): 167 – 183.
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Simon Munzert. 2017. “Forecasting elections at the constituency level: A correction – c ombination procedure.†International Journal of Forecasting 33(2): 467 – 481.
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Sascha Gö bel and Simon Munzert. “Political Advertising on the Wikipedia Market Place of Information.†Forthcoming at Social Science Computer Review .
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Simon Munzert, Lukas Stö tzer, Thomas Gschwend, Marcel Neunhoeffer, Sebastian Sternberg, and Steffen Zittlau. “Zweitstimme.org. Ein strukturell - dynamisches Vorhersagemodell für Bundestagswahlen.†Forthcoming at Politische Vierteljahresschrift .
