Christoph Ivanusch

Christoph Ivanusch is a Visiting Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center's Center for Civil Society Research and a researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He is concurrently pursuing a doctoral degree in Political Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS). His work focuses on political communication, party competition, and quantitative text analysis across European democracies. He has contributed to major projects like the Manifesto Research Project on Political Representation (MARPOR) and the EU-funded OPTED project on political texts. His research bridges computational methods and political theory, analyzing how parties engage voters through diverse communication channels.

Education: PhD candidate in Political Science (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), prior studies in political science and research methods. Research projects include the OPTED platform for political text analysis and the Manifesto Project dataset. Key areas of study include legislative debates, election campaigns, and the dynamics of political messaging in digital and traditional media.

Recent publications emphasize cross-channel party communication strategies, media coverage of political messages, and automated content analysis of parliamentary speeches. His work highlights how parties adapt communication tactics to different platforms and audiences. He is actively involved in developing research infrastructures for large-scale political text analysis, ensuring accessibility for comparative studies.

Labs/Teams: Part of the Manifesto Project leadership and OPTED core team. Collaborates with institutions like the University of Vienna and WZB to advance computational methods in political science.