Publications
Please find below a list of my publications.
Working papers
Leifeld, Philip and Tim Henrichsen (2023): Tracing the Sources of Belief Contestation in Policy Debates. Paper presented at the workshop "Measuring, Modeling and Mitigating Opinion Polarization and Political Cleavage (MMM)", ETH Zurich, 13-15 September 2023. [pdf; slides; abstract; workshop program]
Leifeld, Philip and Laurence Brandenberger (2019): Endogenous Coalition Formation in Policy Debates. arXiv:1904.05327
Journal articles
Henrichsen, Tim, Philip Leifeld, Lorien Jasny, Iain Weaver and Dana R. Fisher: Ground-Truthing Political Elites in the Public Sphere: Measuring the Arena Effects of Elite Opinion. Research & Politics. Forthcoming.
Gielens, Erwin E. C., Jakub Sowula and Philip Leifeld: Goodbye Human Annotators? Content Analysis of Social Policy Debates using ChatGPT. Journal of Social Policy. Forthcoming.
Mulder, Joris, Nial Friel and Philip Leifeld (2024): Bayesian Testing of Scientific Expectations Under Exponential Random Graph Models. Social Networks 78: 40-53. [link]
Leifeld, Philip, Tim Henrichsen, Christina Buckton, Gillian Fergie and Shona Hilton (2022): Belief System Alignment and Cross-Sectoral Advocacy Efforts in Policy Debates. Journal of European Public Policy 29(8): 1225-1248. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip and Skyler J. Cranmer (2022): Invited Commentary: The Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model is a Theory as Much as it is a Method and Must be Subject to Theory Tests. Network Science 10(1): 14-18. [link]
Brandenberger, Laurence, Karin Ingold, Manuel Fischer, Isabelle Schläpfer and Philip Leifeld (2022): Boundary Spanning through Engagement of Policy Actors in Multiple Issues. The Policy Studies Journal 50(1): 35-64. [link]
Malang, Thomas and Philip Leifeld (2021): The Latent Diffusion Network among National Parliaments in the Early Warning System of the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies 59(4): 873-890. [link; pdf]
Hilton, Shona, Christina H. Buckton, Tim Henrichsen, Gillian Fergie and Philip Leifeld (2020): Policy Congruence and Advocacy Strategies in the Discourse Networks of Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol and the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. Addiction 115(12): 2303-2314. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip (2020): Policy Debates and Discourse Network Analysis: A Research Agenda. Politics and Governance 8(2): 180-183. [link; pdf]
Metz, Florence, Philip Leifeld and Karin Ingold (2019): Interdependent Policy Instrument Preferences: A Two-Mode Network Approach. Journal of Public Policy 39(4): 609-636. [link; pdf]
Fisher, Dana R. and Philip Leifeld (2019): The Polycentricity of Climate Policy Blockage. Climatic Change 155(4): 469–487. [link; pdf]
Malang, Thomas, Laurence Brandenberger and Philip Leifeld (2019): Networks and Social Influence in European Legislative Politics. British Journal of Political Science 49(4): 1475-1498. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip and Skyler J. Cranmer (2019): A Theoretical and Empirical Comparison of the Temporal Exponential Random Graph Model and the Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model. Network Science 7(1): 20-51. [link; pdf]
Buckton, Christina, Gillian Fergie, Philip Leifeld and Shona Hilton (2019): A Discourse Network Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage of the "Sugar Tax" Debate before and after the Announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. BMC Public Health 19(490): 1-14. [link; pdf]
Fergie, Gillian, Philip Leifeld, Ben Hawkins and Shona Hilton (2019): Mapping Discourse Coalitions in the Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol Debate: A Discourse Network Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage. Addiction 114(4): 741-753. [link; pdf; commentary: "A New Tool for Unpacking Policy Debates over Unhealthy Commodities"]
Leifeld, Philip (2018): Polarization in the Social Sciences: Assortative Mixing in Social Science Collaboration Networks is Resilient to Interventions. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 507: 510-523. [link; pdf]
Heaney, Michael T. and Philip Leifeld (2018): Contributions by Interest Groups to Lobbying Coalitions. The Journal of Politics 80(2): 494-509. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip, Skyler J. Cranmer and Bruce A. Desmarais (2018): Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models with btergm: Estimation and Bootstrap Confidence Intervals. Journal of Statistical Software 83(6): 1-36. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip and Dana R. Fisher (2017): Membership Nominations in International Scientific Assessments. Nature Climate Change 7(10): 730-735. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip, Sandra Wankmüller, Valentin T. Z. Berger, Karin Ingold and Christiane Steiner (2017): Collaboration Patterns in the German Political Science Co-Authorship Network. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0174671. [link; pdf]
Cranmer, Skyler J., Philip Leifeld, Scott D. McClurg and Meredith Rolfe (2017): Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis. American Journal of Political Science 61(1): 237-251. [link; pdf]
Czarna, Anna Z., Philip Leifeld, Magdalena Śmieja, Michael Dufner and Peter Salovey (2016): Do Narcissism and Emotional Intelligence Win Us Friends? Modeling Dynamics of Peer Popularity Using Inferential Network Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 42(11): 1588-1599. [link; pdf]
Towfigh, Emanuel V., Sebastian J. Goerg, Andreas Glöckner, Philip Leifeld, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Sophie Bade and Carlos Kurschilgen (2016): Do Direct-Democratic Procedures Lead to Higher Acceptance than Political Representation? Experimental Survey Evidence from Germany. Public Choice 167(1): 47-65. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip and Karin Ingold (2016): Co-Authorship Networks in Swiss Political Research. Swiss Political Science Review 22(2): 264-287. [link; pdf]
Ingold, Karin and Philip Leifeld (2016): Structural and Institutional Determinants of Influence Reputation: A Comparison of Collaborative and Adversarial Policy Networks in Decision Making and Implementation. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 26(1): 1-18. [link; pdf]
Fischer, Manuel and Philip Leifeld (2015): Policy Forums: Why do they Exist and what are they Used for? Policy Sciences 48(3): 363-382. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip (2014): Polarization of Coalitions in an Agent-Based Model of Political Discourse. Computational Social Networks 1(1): 7. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip (2013): Reconceptualizing Major Policy Change in the Advocacy Coalition Framework. A Discourse Network Analysis of German Pension Politics. The Policy Studies Journal 41(1): 169-198. [link; pdf]
Fisher, Dana R., Philip Leifeld and Yoko Iwaki (2013): Mapping the Ideological Networks of American Climate Politics. Climatic Change 116(3): 523-545. [link; pdf]
Fisher, Dana R., Joseph Waggle and Philip Leifeld (2013): Where does Political Polarization Come From? Locating Polarization Within the U.S. Climate Change Debate. American Behavioral Scientist 116(3): 523-545. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip (2013): texreg: Conversion of Statistical Model Output in R to LaTeX and HTML Tables. Journal of Statistical Software 55(8): 1-24. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip and Sebastian Haunss (2012): Political Discourse Networks and the Conflict over Software Patents in Europe. European Journal of Political Research 51(3): 382-409. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip and Volker Schneider (2012): Information Exchange in Policy Networks. American Journal of Political Science 53(3): 731-744. [link; pdf]
Monograph
Leifeld, Philip (2016): Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks: German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse. Frankfurt/New York: Campus. Distributed internationally by the University of Chicago Press. [link 1; link 2]
Edited volumes and special issues
Leifeld, Philip (editor) (2020): Policy Debates and Discourse Network Analysis. Special issue of Politics and Governance 8(2). [link; pdf]
Nagel, Melanie, Patrick Kenis, Philip Leifeld and Hans-Jörg Schmedes (editors) (2020): Politische Komplexität, Governance von Innovationen und Policy-Netzwerke. Festschrift für Volker Schneider. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link]
Schneider, Volker, Frank Janning, Philip Leifeld and Thomas Malang (editors) (2009): Politiknetzwerke. Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link]
Book chapters
Leifeld, Philip (2020): World Government and Global Governance from a Cybernetic Perspective. In: Nagel, Melanie, Patrick Kenis, Philip Leifeld and Hans-Jörg Schmedes (editors): Politische Komplexität, Governance von Innovationen und Policy-Netzwerke. Festschrift für Volker Schneider. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link]
Leifeld, Philip (2019): Netzwerkanalyse in der Politikwissenschaft. In: Wagemann, Claudius, Achim Goerres and Markus Siewert (editors): Handbuch Methoden der Politikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link]
Leifeld, Philip (2019): Brückenschlag in der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung durch Diskursnetzwerkanalyse. In: Richard Nägler (editor): Steuermannskunst im Hochschulmanagement. Die Wirkungskraft von Ideen und Diskursen auf die Universität. Pages XV-XVIII. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link; pdf]
Metz, Florence and Philip Leifeld (2018): Governing Water with Market-Based Instruments: Preferences and Skepticism in Switzerland. In: Christian Bréthaut and Rémi Schweizer (editors): A Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends: Policy and Practice. Chapter 7, pages 147-176. London: Palgrave MacMillan. [link]
Leifeld, Philip (2017): Discourse Network Analysis: Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks. In: Jennifer N. Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery and Mark N. Lubell (editors): The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks. Chapter 12, pages 301-325. Oxford University Press. [link]
Schneider, Volker, Philip Leifeld and Thomas Malang (2013): Coping with Creeping Catastrophes: National Political Systems and the Challenge of Slow-Moving Policy Problems. In: Bernd Siebenhüner, Marlen Arnold, Klaus Eisenack and Klaus Jacob (editors): Long-Term Governance of Social-Ecological Change. Pages 221-238. Abingdon: Routledge. [link; pdf]
Janning, Frank, Philip Leifeld, Thomas Malang and Volker Schneider (2009): Diskursnetzwerkanalyse. Überlegungen zur Theoriebildung und Methodik. In: Volker Schneider, Frank Janning, Philip Leifeld and Thomas Malang (editors): Politiknetzwerke. Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen. Pages 59-92. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link]
Leifeld, Philip (2009): Eine Ko-Zitationsanalyse der quantitativen Netzwerkanalysen in der Politikwissenschaft. In: Volker Schneider, Frank Janning, Philip Leifeld and Thomas Malang (editors): Politiknetzwerke. Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen. Pages 93-113. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link]
Schneider, Volker and Philip Leifeld (2009): Überzeugungssysteme, Diskursnetzwerke und politische Kommunikation: Ein zweiter Blick auf die deutsche Chemikalienkontrolle der 1980er Jahre. In: Volker Schneider, Frank Janning, Philip Leifeld and Thomas Malang (editors): Politiknetzwerke. Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen. Pages 139-158. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link]
Leifeld, Philip and Thomas Malang (2009): Glossar der Politiknetzwerkanalyse. In: Volker Schneider, Frank Janning, Philip Leifeld and Thomas Malang (editors): Politiknetzwerke. Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen. Pages 371-389. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link; pdf]
Leifeld, Philip (2009): Die Untersuchung von Diskursnetzwerken mit dem Discourse Network Analyzer (DNA). In: Volker Schneider, Frank Janning, Philip Leifeld and Thomas Malang (editors): Politiknetzwerke. Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen. Pages 391-404. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link; pdf]
Lang, Achim and Philip Leifeld (2008): Die Netzwerkanalyse in der Policy-Forschung. Eine theoretische und methodische Bestandsaufnahme. In: Frank Janning and Katrin Toens (editors): Die Zukunft der Policy-Forschung. Theorien, Methoden, Anwendungen. Pages 223-241. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [link]