Oke Seliger
Short biography
Oke Seliger studied political science and economics at the University of Potsdam from 2017 to 2020. Subsequently, he obtained a master’s degree in political science at the University of Potsdam and the University of Tartu. For his master's degree, he was awarded a scholarship by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. During his studies, he worked at the Chair of Politics and Governance as part of the university research focus "Data-Centric Sciences". In addition, he worked as a policy advisor in the German Bundestag and most recently supported the research project "ShapingAI" as a student assistant at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Since February 2024, Oke Seliger has been a scientific assistant and doctoral candidate and part of the State-DNA research project.
Since February 2025, Oke Seliger has been a member of the speaker team of the Forum junge Staats-, Policy- und Verwaltungsforschung (FoJuS) as part of his academic work.
Research
Oke Seliger is particularly interested in policy processes and the relationship between executive and legislative actors from a comparative perspective. He furthermore researches the politicization of different aspects of the digital transformation. In his research, Oke Seliger is particularly fascinated by the use and integration of natural-language-processing (NLP) and computational analysis approaches in the social sciences and explores possibilities for multilingual analysis approaches.
Teaching
- Sommersemester 25: The Brandenburg State Parliament and empirical dynamics of state politics (Bachelor, Seminar)
- Sommersemester 25: Drivers and Consequences of Political Attention (Bachelor, Seminar)
- Wintersemester 24/25: Parliamentary research in Germany: Data-driven perspectives (Bachelor, Seminar)
- Wintersemester 24/25: Legislation in Germany: From initiative to promulgation (Bachelor, Seminar)
Publikationen
Thiele, L., & Seliger, O. (2025). How do parties use political advertising in election campaigns? Examining issue competition in advertising campaigns on Facebook and Instagram for the 2021 federal election in Germany. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 1–15. (DOI)
Conference contributions
(2025) Fleischer, J. & Maurer, Z. & Seliger, O.: Policy without Parliament: Bureaucratic Structures and Government Legislation in Europe. Annual Conference Comparative Agendas Project, Universität Konstanz, 11.-13. Juni 2025.
(2025) Seliger, O: Ministerial Coordination and Legislative Amendments: An NLP Approach to Assessing Change in Ministerial-Sponsored Bills. 7th International COMPTEXT Conference, Universität Wien, 24.-26. April 2025.
(2025) Fleischer, J. & Maurer, Z. & Seliger, O.: Policy without Parliament: Bureaucratic Structures and Government Legislation in Europe. Sektionstagung „Policy-Analyse und Verwaltungswissenschaft“, Universität Darmstadt 20.-21. März 2025.
(2025) Seliger, O: Ministerial Coordination and Legislative Amendments: An NLP Approach to Assessing Change in Ministerial-Sponsored Bills. 18. Jahrestagung des Forum Junge Staats-, Verwaltungs- und Policy-Forschung (FoJuS) „Von der Kommune zur EU: Verwaltung und Politik zwischen Krisen, Ressourcenknappheit und Innovation“, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 20.- 21. Februar 2025.
(2024) Seliger, O.: (De)Politicizing the Digital Transformation: Computationally Assessing Issue Dynamics in European National Parliaments. Panel within the section “Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Democracy”: “Ai and Governance”, ECPR General Conference, University College Dublin, 12.-15. August 2024.
(2024) Seliger, O.: Legislative Contraction in Times of Crises? Assessing the Impact of Parliamentary Proceedings on Crisis-Affected Governmental Policy Bills in European Democracies. NoPSA 2024 XX Nordic Political Science Congress, Workshop “Public Administration under Accelerating Pressure”, Bergen, 25.-28. Juni 2024.
(2024) Seliger, O.: Ai Debates in Parliament: Analyzing Cross-Country Issue Competition over an Emerging Technology. 13. Jahrestagung des Forum Junge Staats-, Verwaltungs- und Policy-Forschung (FoJuS) „Politik und Verwaltung in Zeiten politischer Polarisierung und gesellschaftlicher Diversität“, TU Braunschweig, Deutschland, 12. & 13. März 2024.