Publications

Monographs and edited volumes

König, P. & D. Nyhuis. Forthcoming. Politische Kommunikation analysieren: Grundlagen, Zugänge, Anwendungen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Munzert, S., C. Rubba, P. Meißner & D. Nyhuis. 2014. Automated data collection with R: A practical guide to web scraping and text mining. Hoboken: Wiley. Translated into Chinese and Japanese.
Nyhuis, D. 2014. Linking voters, parties, and candidate communication: Strategic ambiguity in German elections. Dissertation. Mannheim: University of Mannheim.

Articles with peer review

Zittel, T. & D. Nyhuis. Forthcoming. Two faces of party unity: Roll call behavior and vote explanations in the German Bundestag. Parliamentary Affairs.
Song, H., D. Nyhuis & H. Boomgaarden. Forthcoming. A network model of negative campaigning: The structure and determinants of negative campaigning in multi-party systems. Communication Research.
Nyhuis, D. & C. Plescia. Forthcoming. The nonideological component of coalition preferences. Party Politics.
Nyhuis, D. 2018. Separating candidate valence and proximity voting: Determinants of competitors’ non-policy appeal. Political Science Research and Methods, 6(1), 135-51.
Nyhuis, D. 2017. Estimating policy positions of local parties in elections with multi-vote ballots. Local Government Studies, 43(3), 475-98.
Nyhuis, D. 2016. Partei oder Person? Parteispezifische Wahlmotive bei baden-württembergischen Kommunalwahlen. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 47(3), 642-54.
Nyhuis, D. 2016. Electoral effects of candidate valence. Electoral Studies. 42, 33-41.
Nyhuis, D. 2014. Mehr Stimmen gleich bessere demokratische Qualität? Negative Effekte der Komplexität des Wahlrechts auf die Zusammensetzung der Wählerschaft. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 24(3), 255-80.

Contributions in edited volumes

Munzert, S. & D. Nyhuis. Forthcoming. Die Nutzung von Webdaten in den Sozialwissenschaften. In: Wagemann, C., A. Goerres & M. Siewert (eds.) Handbuch Methoden der Politikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Nyhuis, D. & T. Faas. Forthcoming. Twitter als Spiegel öffentlicher Meinung? Die Schätzung politischer Bewertungen auf Twitter mittels halbautomatischer Textklassifizierung. In: Behnke, J., A. Blätte, K.-U. Schnapp & C. Wagemann (eds.) Computational Social Science: Die Analyse von Big Data. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Nyhuis, D. & S. Shikano. Forthcoming. The effect of scandals on political preferences: The case of the CDU donations scandal in Germany, 1999-2000. In: Haller, A., H. Michael & M. Kraus (eds.) Scandalogy: An interdisciplinary field. Cologne: Herbert von Halem.
Nyhuis, D. & J. Friederich. 2017. Begleitung des TV-Duells auf Twitter. In: Faas, T., J. Maier & M. Maier (eds.) Merkel gegen Steinbrück: Analysen zum TV-Duell vor der Bundestagswahl 2013. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 157-72.

Working papers

Baumann, M. & D. Nyhuis. Inherent motivation in legislative collaboration: Cosponsorship networks in three European parliaments.
König, P. & D. Nyhuis. Assessing the applicability of vote advice applications for estimating party positions.
Nyhuis, D. Local policy preferences, competing principals, and strategic candidate ambiguity.
Nyhuis, D. & T. Faas. Second screen effects on perceived candidate performance.
Nyhuis, D., M. Henneke & T. Zittel. Representation beyond the district: A party-level rationale for geographic representation.
Nyhuis, D. & S. Shikano. Short-term dynamics of political preferences: Candidate valence during electoral campaigns.
Nyhuis, D., H. Song & H. Boomgaarden. Disproportionality in media representations of campaign negativity.
Nyhuis, D., T. Zittel & M. Henneke. The politicization of social divisions in legislative contexts: A dictionary-based analysis of parliamentary questions in the German Bundestag.
Shikano, S. & D. Nyhuis. The effect of incumbency on ideological and valence perceptions of parties in multilevel polities.
Stoetzer, L. & D. Nyhuis. A comprehensive model for estimating party ambiguity.
Zittel, T, D. Nyhuis & M. Baumann. Geographic representation at the margins: The case of the German Bundestag.

Select recent conference contributions and invited talks

Shikano, S. & D. Nyhuis. 2018. The effect of incumbency on ideological and valence perceptions of parties in multilevel parties. (Invited talk.) Workshop “Manifesto Coordination in Multi-Level Settings”. Brussel, March 9-10.
Czulo, O., D. Nyhuis & A. Weyell. 2018. The effect of terroristic events on the framing of extremism in mediated public discourse. General Online Research. Köln, February 28-March 2.
Nyhuis, D. & T. Faas. 2018. Second screen effects on perceived candidate performance. (Invited talk.) Symposium “Integrating and Analyzing Data from Surveys and Social Media”. Bochum, February 19-20.
Nyhuis, D. & S. Shikano. 2018. Short-term dynamics of political preferences: Candidate valence during electoral campaigns. Conference of the PSA Methdology Group. Essex, January 12.
Shikano, S. & D. Nyhuis. 2017. Ideological and valence perceptions of parties in multilevel polities: The role of incumbency status. (Invited talk.) Workshop “Party Competition in European Multi-Level Systems”. Mannheim, November 24–25.
Ceyhan, S., D. Nyhuis & T. Zittel. 2017. The dilemma of intra-party democracy: Candidate selection and the quality of legislators. (Invited talk.) Workshop “Change and Future Viability of Party Democracy in Europe”. Düsseldorf, October 13–14.
Nyhuis, D. & T. Zittel. 2017. Representation beyond the district: A party-level rationale for geographic representation. (Invited talk.) Workshop “The Political Economy of Mixed-Member Systems”. Delmenhorst, October 5–7.
Zittel, T. & D. Nyhuis. 2017. Three faces of party unity: Roll call behavior and vote explanations in the German Bundestag. ECPR General Conference. Oslo, September 6–9.
Nyhuis, D. 2017. Employing multi-vote ballots for inferences on local policy spaces. (Invited talk.) Workshop “New Developments in Spatial Models of Party Competition”. Konstanz, July 21–22.
Ceyhan, S., D. Nyhuis & T. Zittel. 2017. The dilemma of intra-party democracy: Candidate selection and the quality of legislators. Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments. Basel, June 29–July 1.
Nyhuis, D., M. Henneke & T. Zittel. 2017. Representation beyond the district: A party-level rationale for geographic representation. Annual Conference of the EPSA. Milan, June 22–24.
Nyhuis, D., M. Henneke & T. Zittel. 2017. Geographic representation in legislative text: Generating dictionaries for automated content analyses of individual parliamentary instruments. Meeting of the DVPW section “Methoden der Politikwissenschaft”. Mainz, May 12–14.
Stoetzer, L. & D. Nyhuis. 2017. A comprehensive statistical model for estimating party ambiguity. Annual Meeting of the PSA. Glasgow, April 10–12.
Nyhuis, D., T. Zittel & M. Henneke. 2016. Not so dealigned after all: The representation of social groups in the German Bundestag. Workshop “The Responsible Party Model in Times of Dealignment”. Leuven, December 19–20.
Stoetzer, L. & D. Nyhuis. 2016. A comprehensive model of party ambiguity. Common Meeting of the Austrian, German, and Swiss Political Science Associations. Heidelberg, September 29–October 1.
Zittel, T., D. Nyhuis & M. Baumann. 2016. The role of geography in partisan legislatures: The case of the German Bundestag. Common Meeting of the Austrian, German, and Swiss Political Science Associations. Heidelberg, September 29–October 1.
Nyhuis, D., T. Zittel & M. Henneke. 2016. Not so dealigned after all: The representation of social groups in the German Bundestag. ECPR General Conference. Prague, September 7–10.
Baumann, M. & D. Nyhuis. 2016. Inherent motivation in legislative collaboration: Cosponsorship networks in three European parliaments. Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments. Munich, June 30–July 2.
Nyhuis, D. & S. Shikano. 2016. The effect of scandals on political preferences. Annual Conference of the EPSA. Brussels, June 23–25.
Nyhuis, D. & T. Faas. 2016. Second screen effects on perceived candidate performances. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops. Pisa, April 24–28.