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hhilbig/README.md

Hi, I am an assistant professor of political science at UC Davis.

Website: https://www.hannohilbig.com Email: hhilbig@ucdavis.edu

GERDA

The German Election Database, with Vincent Heddesheimer, Andreas Wiedemann, and Florian Sichart. It includes election results for federal, state, county, European Parliament, mayoral, and municipal elections. Coverage begins in 1953 and runs through 2025, depending on the election level.

Other data and projects

  • CLARA: A chapter-year panel of 2,635 local German party organizations, including leadership, issue emphasis, and 237,399 archived news articles from 2015–2025. Documentation.
  • Feedback Pipeline: A multi-agent tool for reviewing quantitative social science papers.
  • PolSci Open Bench: A comparison of local open-weight LLMs and commercial models on social science text-classification tasks.
  • German Broadband Data: Municipality-level broadband coverage in Germany, 2005–2021, using 2021 borders. Documentation gaps and a provider change in 2015 may affect accuracy and comparability over time.

Replication files

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  1. awiedem/german_election_data awiedem/german_election_data Public

    The German Election Database (GERDA) contains comprehensive local, state, and federal election results at the municipal and county level. It provides harmonized data, accounting for administrative …

    HTML 32

  2. gerda gerda Public

    R package to access GERDA data in R

    R 5

  3. broadband broadband Public

    A best-effort panel of German broadband coverage data (2005-2021) at the municipality-level, standardized 2021 borders.

    R 3

  4. polsci-open-bench polsci-open-bench Public

    Benchmark comparing local open-weight LLMs against commercial models on political science / social science text classification tasks.

    Python 11