About
Hi! I am a first-year PhD student at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University, Prague. I generally specialize in Computational Political Science and apply NLP and (Bayesian) statistical modelling to topics in international cooperation and political behavior.
In my dissertation, I research elite political communication about international economic cooperation and the interaction of economic globalization and party politics. With my co-authors, I also research novel approaches to measuring elite politicial ideology.
Research
Working Papers
Political Debates about Ideology under Postcommunism: Salience and Sentiment of the Left and Right in the Czech Parliament, 1993–2023
Variation in Ideological Speech across Parliaments: Examining the Asymmetric Effects of Political Contexts & Legacies
Government-Opposition Dynamics of IO Scapegoating: Evidence from European National Parliamentary Debates, 1997–2020
Conceptual Review of Quantum Social Science: Familiar Old Wine in New Bottles?
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