Dylan Paltra

Dylan Paltra

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PhD Student of Political Science University of Oldenburg

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Social media posts as source for political news coverage inside and outside election campaigns: Examining effects on deliberative news media quality

Published in Journalism, 2024

A content analysis of German news websites examining how journalists’ use of X (Twitter) posts inside and outside the 2021 German election campaign affects the deliberative quality of news coverage.

Recommended citation: Oschatz, Corinna, Teresa Gil-Lopez, Dylan Paltra, Sebastian Stier, and Tanjev Schultz. 2024. "Social Media Posts as Source for Political News Coverage Inside and Outside Election Campaigns: Examining Effects on Deliberative News Media Quality." Journalism 25(8): 1638–1656. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241231698
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Affective States: Cultural and Affective Polarization in a Multilevel-Multiparty System

Published in Political Behavior, 2025

This paper examines how cultural and economic party polarization translate into affective polarization across Germany’s 16 states from 1990-2023, showing that cultural divides fuel voter hostility primarily in the presence of the far-right AfD.

Recommended citation: Paltra, Dylan, Marius Sältzer, and Christian Stecker. 2025. "Affective States: Cultural and Affective Polarization in a Multilevel-Multiparty System". Political Behavior (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10088-6
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Introduction to Political Science

Undergraduate course, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institute for Social Sciences, 2025

  • Weekly seminar for first-year Bachelor students
  • Teaching language: German

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