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40
Citations
5551
World Ranking
509
National Ranking
11

Overview

Markus Freitag is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and works at the intersection of computer science and social sciences. Their research spans a variety of topics, with notable contributions in natural language processing and social and intergroup psychology.

Their scientific output covers main fields of study including Computer Science and Social Sciences. Subfields prominently featured in their work are Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research addresses a broad selection of topics such as:

  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Topic Modeling
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Freitag has several recent publications demonstrating interdisciplinary work. Selected papers include:

  • "The Emotional Foundations of Political Support: How Fear and Anger Affect Trust in the Government in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic" (2021), published in Swiss Political Science Review
  • "National identity between democracy and autocracy: a comparative analysis of 24 countries" (2020) in European Political Science Review
  • "Language Models are Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoners" (2022) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Pandemic threat and intergroup relations: how negative emotions associated with the threat of Covid-19 shape attitudes towards immigrants" (2022) in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "High Quality Rather than High Model Probability: Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Neural Metrics" (2022) in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Maximilian Filsinger, Julian Erhardt, Steffen Wamsler, Daniel Deutsch, and David Grangier.

Freitag's publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • European Political Science Review
  • European Journal of Political Research
  • KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
  • Public Opinion Quarterly

Best Publications

  • Spheres of trust: An empirical analysis of the foundations of particularised and generalised trust

    Markus Freitag;Richard Traunmüller

  • Crafting Trust The Role of Political Institutions in a Comparative Perspective

    Markus Freitag;Marc Bühlmann

  • Bowling the state back in: Political institutions and the creation of social capital

    Markus Freitag

  • Social Capital in (Dis)Similar Democracies The Development of Generalized Trust in Japan and Switzerland

    Markus Freitag

  • Testing for Measurement Equivalence in Surveys Dimensions of Social Trust across Cultural Contexts

    Markus Freitag;Paul Cornelius Bauer

  • Sozialkapital : Grundlagen und Anwendungen

    Axel Franzen;Markus Freitag

  • Beyond Tocqueville: The Origins of Social Capital in Switzerland

    Markus Freitag

  • Personality traits and the propensity to trust friends and strangers

    Markus Freitag;Paul. C. Bauer

  • Educational Inequality in the EU The Effectiveness of the National Education Policy

    Raphaela Schlicht;Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen;Markus Freitag

  • Freiwilligen-Monitor Schweiz 2010

    Isabelle Stadelmann;Richard Traunmüller;Birte Gundelach;Markus Freitag

  • Soziales Kapital und Arbeitslosigkeit. Eine empirische Analyse zu den Schweizer Kantonen

    Markus Freitag

  • Direkte Demokratie, Konkordanz und Wirtschaftsleistung: Ein Vergleich der Schweizer Kantone

    Markus Freitag;Adrian Vatter

  • Individuelle und kontextuelle Determinanten der Teilhabe an Sozialkapital

    Marc Bühlmann;Markus Freitag

  • Educational Federalism in Germany: Foundations of Social Inequality in Education

    Markus Freitag;Raphaela Schlicht

  • Bremse oder Gaspedal? Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Wirkung der direkten Demokratie auf den Steuerstaat

    Markus Freitag;Adrian Vatter;Christoph Müller

  • Neighbourhood Diversity and Social Trust: An Empirical Analysis of Interethnic Contact and Group-specific Effects

    Birte Gundelach;Markus Freitag

  • Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone? The Influence of Direct Democracy on Individual Participation in Parliamentary Elections

    Markus Freitag;Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

  • Individual and Contextual Determinants of Electoral Participation

    Marc Bühlmann;Markus Freitag

  • Intolerance Toward Immigrants in Switzerland: Diminished Threat Through Social Contacts?†

    Markus Freitag;Carolin Rapp

  • Measuring Trust

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  • Decentralization and Fiscal Discipline in Sub-national Governments: Evidence from the Swiss Federal System

    Markus Freitag;Adrian Vatter

  • Making Civil Society Work: Models of Democracy and Their Impact on Civic Engagement

    Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen;Markus Freitag

  • Initiatives, referendums, and the tax state

    Markus Freitag;Adrian Vatter

  • Teaching Tolerance? Associational Diversity and Tolerance Formation

    Carolin Rapp;Markus Freitag

  • Direct Democracy : Protest Catalyst or Protest Alternative?

    Matthias Fatke;Markus Freitag

  • Reciprocity and volunteering

    Anita Manatschal;Markus Freitag

  • The Emotional Foundations of Political Support: How Fear and Anger Affect Trust in the Government in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Julian Erhardt;Markus Freitag;Maximilian Filsinger;Steffen Wamsler

  • Civil War and the Formation of Social Trust in Kosovo: Posttraumatic Growth or War-related Distress?

    Sara Kijewski;Markus Freitag

  • Direct Democracy and Institutional Trust: Relationships and Differences Across Personality Traits

    Markus Freitag;Kathrin Ackermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Vatter
Adrian Vatter University of Bern
Jale Tosun
Jale Tosun Heidelberg University
Pascal Sciarini
Pascal Sciarini University of Geneva
William A. Maloney
William A. Maloney Newcastle University
Jürgen Schupp
Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research
Karsten Hank
Karsten Hank University of Cologne
Karin Ingold
Karin Ingold University of Bern
Herbert Obinger
Herbert Obinger University of Bremen

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