I'm currently a doctoral researcher in Political Science at the University of Hamburg. I'll finish my PhD in the end of this spring and I'm looking for new challenges and tasks where I can use the skills I've learned in the last years.

What I love to do

🕵🏻‍♀️ Searching for patterns in data
📈 Thinking about statistical ways to analyze whether these patterns actually tell a story 📊 Finding beautiful ways to tell these stories
👨‍💻👩🏾‍💻👨🏼‍💻 And most of all, I love doing all of this in a team

If you are here because you are thinking about hiring me

All of these projects are still on-going so the code still changes frequently.

• My current project shows some of my most up-to-date skills in data wrangling and statistical analysis in R. In these papers, we analyze the effects of populists in power on courts and constitutions across countries in Europe and Latin America. It's a co-authored paper but in the current state all code is written by me.
• My latest scraping project in Python assembled all articles mentioning the Austrian justice system in the newspaper Der Standard. In this project I have also used the openai API with GPT-3.5 to classify articles. The data is of course not published and only used for research but you can check out the code.
• The visualization code for Tilko's and my The Loop Blog from 2023 is on Observable (JavaScript, plot & a tiny bit of D3). The data wrangling was done in cross-country project.
• If you'd like to get an idea of my current svelte skills, please get in touch, so I can add you to my current repo. I'm still lacking some data for publishing.

If you are here because you are looking for replication files

• König, Jasmin; Swalve, Tilko (2023): Do populist parties in government produce unconstitutional policies? Evidence from Austria, 1980–2021. In: European Journal of Political Research, 62: 806–829: Replication Files
• Jasmin Sarah König, Tilko Swalve (2023). Zum Verhältnis von demokratischer und konstitutioneller Regression unter populistischen Regierungen - Eine empirische Analyse. Leviathan (Sonderband 40): Replication Files

If you are here because you are looking for a working paper

• König, Jasmin (2024): Do High Courts Change Their Communication when Facing Populist Parties? Working Paper
• König, Jasmin; Block, Sebastian (2024): Judicial Backsliding Under Populist Governments: The Role of Trust in the Judiciary.

If you are here because you are looking for data

• Data on VfGH Decisions. This includes a data file on the level of cases decided at the court and a dataset based on the norms reviewed by the court. It has a very large number of variables, so if you are only interested in the ones used in our EJPR paper, better check out the replication files.
• Data on Austrian laws. Check out the Austrian Parliaments new Open Data as well. I scraped the data before the Open Data API was implemented. But, if you are looking for a dataset that has information on which laws were proposed by populist politicians, my dataset might be the way to go.
• Variables on Judiciary in Latino- and Eurobarometer. This is particularly interesting for people studying trust in the judiciary since the current harmonized dataset of the Eurobarometer lacks quite a few years for this variable.
• Combination of V-Dem, V-Party, Comparative Constitutions, Euro- and Latinobarometer Data