Štěpán Jabůrek

Computational Political Science - researching international cooperation using natural language processing and Bayesian modeling.

PhD Student in International Relations · Charles University
Advisor: Michal Parizek · Institute of Political Studies

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About

I am a first-year PhD student at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University in Prague.

In my dissertation, I research elite political communication about international cooperation and information flows about international politics more broadly. With my co-authors, I also study the dimensionality of elite political ideology and its variation across European political contexts.

Methodologically I specialize in computational political science with a focus on Natural Language Processing and statistical modeling (slowly turning Bayesian).

Research

Working Papers

Political Debates about Ideology under Postcommunism: Salience and Sentiment of the Left and Right in the Czech Parliament, 1993–2023

Štěpán Jabůrek, Vojtěch Pohanka, Jan Vondráček · 2025 under review

Variation in Ideological Speech across Parliaments: Examining the Asymmetric Effects of Political Contexts & Legacies

Lukas Warode, Štěpán Jabůrek, Vojtěch Pohanka, Jan Vondráček · 2026 working paper

Government-Opposition Dynamics of IO Scapegoating: Evidence from European National Parliamentary Debates, 1997–2020

Štěpán Jabůrek, Michal Parizek · 2026 working paper

Conceptual Review of Quantum Social Science: Familiar Old Wine in New Bottles?

Jakub Tesař, Michael Schnabel, Štěpán Jabůrek · 2025 working paper

Data

Czech Parliamentary Speeches Dataset 2016–2023: Full transcripts of plenary speeches from the Chamber of Deputies
Štěpán Jabůrek · Harvard Dataverse · 2024
Full-text corpus of plenary speeches from the Czech Chamber of Deputies covering 2016–2023.
Machine Translated ParlSpeech V2 Dataset: 3.5 million parliamentary speeches from 7 countries translated into English
Christian Rauh, Jan Schwalbach, Štěpán Jabůrek, Adam Černý · in preparation · 2026
Full-text parliamentary corpora translated into English via open-source machine translation.

Research Experience

Junior Researcher
Horizon Europe project ENSURED · 2025 – present
Research on the future of multilateralism and global economic governance.
Research Assistant
Charles University · Nov 2024 – Sep 2025
Supervised by Jakub Tesař and Michael Schnabel (Vanderbilt University); Czech Science Foundation project on the use of quantum physics concepts in the quantum social science literature.
Research Assistant
Charles University · Apr 2025 – present
Supervised by Michal Šoltés at the Department of Economics and Empirical Legal Studies; Czech Science Foundation project on the economics of crime.
Researcher
Ipsos · Feb 2024 – Sep 2025
Market research and public opinion polling.

Education

PhD in International Relations
Charles University · in progress
MA in International Relations
Charles University · 2023-2025
Exchange in Political Science
University of Copenhagen · 2025
BA in Political Science
Charles University · 2020-2023

Teaching

Quantitative Methods of Political Research
Co-Lecturer (40%) · Charles University · Spring 2026
Researching International Politics: Quantitative Methods
Co-Lecturer (10%) · Charles University · Winter 2025
Political Text Analysis and Applied Machine Learning
Co-Lecturer (10%) · Charles University · Winter 2025
Global Political Economy
Co-Lecturer (10%) · Charles University · Winter 2025

Projects

Horizon ENSURED
EU Horizon Europe project on the future of multilateralism and global governance; I contribute as a researcher.
Political Speeches NLP Team
An informal research group of PhD students in Prague working on quantitative text analysis of political speech.

Contact

stepan.jaburek@fsv.cuni.cz
Institute of Political Studies, Charles University
Charles University, Prague