Distant Reading of the German Coalition Deal: Recognizing Policy Positions with BERT-based Text Classification

Abstract

Automated text analysis has become a widely used tool in political science. In this research, we use a BERT model trained on German party manifestos to identify the individual parties' contribution to the coalition agreement of 2021.

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