About
Hi! I am a first-year PhD student at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University, Prague.
In my dissertation, I research elite political communication about international economic cooperation and information flows about international politics more broadly. With my co-authors, I also develop novel approaches to measuring elite political ideology and research its variation across European political contexts. Methodologically I usually combine Natural Language Processing and (Bayesian) statistical modeling.
Broadly speaking, my research interests lie at the interesection of international politics, political behavior, and political methodology.
Research
Data
- 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 EnglishFull-text parliamentary corpora translated into English via open-source machine translation.
Research Experience
- Junior ResearcherResearch on the future of multilateralism and global economic governance.
- Research AssistantSupervised 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 AssistantSupervised by Michal Šoltés at the Department of Economics and Empirical Legal Studies; Czech Science Foundation project on the economics of crime.
- ResearcherMarket research and public opinion polling.
Education
- PhD in International Relations
- MA in International Relations
- Exchange in Political Science
- BA in Political Science
Teaching
- Quantitative Methods of Political Research
- Researching International Politics: Quantitative Methods
- Political Text Analysis and Applied Machine Learning
- Global Political Economy
Projects
- EU Horizon Europe project on the future of multilateralism and global governance; I contribute as a junior researcher.
- Elite Political IdeologyA (informal) research group developing new measurements of elite political ideology and studying the variation of ideology across European political legacies and contexts. With Vojtěch Pohanka, Lukas Warode, and Jan Vondráček.
Contact
stepan.jaburek@fsv.cuni.cz
Institute of Political Studies, Charles University
Charles University, Prague