Dr. Kostas Gemenis
Senior Researcher
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-256
Fax: +49 221 2767-555
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-256
Fax: +49 221 2767-555
Research Interests
Political communication; text analysis; voting advice applicationsResearch Projects
Selected Publications
Bruinsma, Bastiaan, and Kostas Gemenis. 2019. "Validating Wordscores: The Promises and Pitfalls of Computational Text Scaling." Communication Methods and Measures 13 (3), 212-227.Germann, Micha, and Kostas Gemenis. 2019. "Getting Out the Vote with Voting Advice Applications." Political Communication 36 (1), 149-170.
Gemenis, Kostas. 2015. "An Iterative Expert Survey Approach for Estimating Parties' Policy Positions." Quality & Quantity 49 (6): 2291-2306.
Gemenis, Kostas, and Martin Rosema. 2014. "Voting Advice Applications and Electoral Turnout." Electoral Studies 36: 281-289.
Gemenis, Kostas. 2013. "What to Do (and Not to Do) with the Comparative Manifestos Project Data." Political Studies 61 (1): 3-23.
Vita
| Oct. 2018-present | Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2010-2018 | Assistant Professor, Research Methods, University of Twente |
| 2007-2010 | PhD, Politics and International Relations, Keele University |
| 2003-2005 | MA, Political Science, Leiden University |
| 1998-2003 | BA, International and European Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki |
Awards and Honors (Selected)
2018: EUROLAB Grant, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences2009: Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)