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Harald Schoen
Researcher at University of Mannheim
Publications - 201
Citations - 3905
Harald Schoen is an academic researcher from University of Mannheim. The author has contributed to research in topics: Voting & Politics. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 189 publications receiving 3222 citations. Previous affiliations of Harald Schoen include University of Bamberg & Heidelberg University.
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Personality Traits, Partisan Attitudes, and Voting Behavior. Evidence from Germany
Harald Schoen,Siegfried Schumann +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that personality traits contribute to the understanding of political attitude formation and decision-making of ordinary citizens, and they test the hypotheses using survey data obtained from a random sample of the Germans eligible to vote.
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The power of prediction with social media
Harald Schoen,Daniel Gayo-Avello,Panagiotis Takis Metaxas,Eni Mustafaraj,Markus Strohmaier,Peter A. Gloor +5 more
TL;DR: It is argued that statistical models seem to be the most fruitful approach to apply to make predictions from social media data in the field of social media-based prediction and forecasting.
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Why the Pirate Party Won the German Election of 2009 or The Trouble With Predictions: A Response to Tumasjan, A., Sprenger, T. O., Sander, P. G., & Welpe, I. M. “Predicting Elections With Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal About Political Sentiment”
TL;DR: Tumasjan et al. as discussed by the authors showed that as of yet the relative frequency of mentions of German political parties in Twitter message allows no prediction of election results and showed that the results of TSSW are contingent on arbitrary choices of the authors.
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Basic Personal Values Underlie and Give Coherence to Political Values: A Cross National Study in 15 Countries
Shalom H. Schwartz,Shalom H. Schwartz,Gian Vittorio Caprara,Michele Vecchione,Paul G. Bain,Gabriel Bianchi,Maria Giovanna Caprara,Jan Cieciuch,Hasan Kirmanoglu,Cem Baslevent,Jan-Erik Lönnqvist,Catalin Mamali,Jorge Manzi,Vassilis Pavlopoulos,Tetyana Posnova,Harald Schoen,Jo Silvester,Carmen Tabernero,Cláudio Vaz Torres,Markku Verkasalo,Eva Vondráková,Christian Welzel,Zbigniew Zaleski +22 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the political values of the general public form a coherent system and that the source of coherence in political values can be found in the basic personal values (e.g., security, achievement, benevolence, hedonism).