Staff profile

Moritz Osnabrügge is an Associate Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs. He previously held positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Bocconi University and the University of Mannheim.

His research interests centre on European politics and computational social science. Moritz employs natural language processing, machine learning, and experiments to increase understanding of political competition, political representation, policy-making, and the rule of law in Europe.

Moritz welcomes enquiries regarding PhD supervision.

Current research grant:

• Quality of Legislation as a Strategic Component of Legislative Decision-making (£ 9,970 from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust). Moritz Osnabrügge (Principal Investigator), Xiao Lu, Matia Vannoni

Chapter in book

• Osnabrügge, M. (2021). New Zealand: Parliamentary Speeches under a Mixed-Member Proportional Electoral System. In H. Bäck, M. Debus, & J. M. Fernandes (Eds.), The Politics of Legislative Debates (613-632). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849063.003.0030

Journal Article

• Osnabrügge, M., & Vannoni, M. (online). Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach. Political Science Research and Methods, https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2024.21
• Hobolt, S. B., & Osnabrügge, M. (online). Countering Authoritarian Behavior in Democracies. Political Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09971-5
• Osnabrügge, M., Ash, E., & Morelli, M. (2023). Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts. Political Analysis, 31(1), 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.37
• Osnabrügge, M., Hobolt, S. B., & Rodon, T. (2021). Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments. American Political Science Review, 115(3), 885-899. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055421000356
• Yordanova, N., Angelova, M., Lehrer, R., Osnabrügge, M., & Renes, S. (2020). Swaying Citizen Support for EU Membership: Evidence from a Survey Experiment of German Voters. European Union Politics, 21(3), 429-450. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116520923735
• Morelli, M., Osnabrügge, M., & Vannoni, M. (2020). Legislative Activity and Private Benefits: A Natural Experiment in New Zealand. Political Science Research and Methods, 8(3), 565-570. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.66
• Hahm, H., König, T., Osnabrügge, M., & Frech, E. (2019). Who Settles Disputes? Treaty Design and Trade Attitudes Toward the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). International Organization, 73(4), 881-900. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020818319000249
• Lin, N., & Osnabrügge, M. (2018). Making Comprehensible Speeches when your Constituents Need it. Research and Politics, 5(3), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168018795598
• Boranbay-Akan, S., König, T., & Osnabrügge, M. (2017). The Imperfect Agenda-Setter: Why Do Legislative Proposals Fail in the EU Decision-Making Process?. European Union Politics, 18(2), 168-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116516674338
• König, T., Marbach, M., & Osnabrügge, M. (2017). Left/Right or U? Estimating the Dimensionality of National Party Competition in Europe. Journal of Politics, 79(3), 1101-1105. https://doi.org/10.1086/692100
• Frech, E., König, T., & Osnabrügge, M. (2015). Öffentliche Unterstützung von Reformen und ihre Stabilität in Zeiten der Eurokrise – eine experimentelle Untersuchung der Wirksamkeit von Gegenargumenten. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 25(2), 219-245. https://doi.org/10.5771/1430-6387-2015-2-219
• Osnabrügge, M. (2015). The European Commission and the Implementation of its Legislative Programme. European Union Politics, 16(2), 241-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116515573844
• König, T., Marbach, M., & Osnabrügge, M. (2013). Estimating Party Positions across Countries and Time—A Dynamic Latent Variable Model for Manifesto Data. Political Analysis, 21(4), 468-491. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpt003