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Dr. Tatiana Lupacheva
Postdoc and research assistant
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tatiana.lupacheva(at)uni-saarland.de
Dr. Tatiana Lupacheva is a postdoctoral researcher at the SOUNDS project.
She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Tartu. Her dissertation examined the interplay between politics and media in Estonia, focusing on the connections between parliamentary speech, media visibility, and MPs’ electoral performance.
Her research covers political communication, political behavior, and computational social science. Specifically, she is interested in political behavior and communication in the digital age, with a focus on politician–voter interactions, the role of traditional and new media in political processes, and the use of digital trace data to study these dynamics.
Research areas: political behavior, political communication, computational social science
Publications
Lupacheva, T. and M. Mölder (2024). “A place to speak and be heard? Parliamentary speech and media attention in Estonia, 2011–2019”. In: Legislative Studies Quarterly 49.4, pp. 905–924. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12457
Lupacheva, T. (2025). “Media Visibility and Information-Seeking Analyzing the Impact of News Coverage on Wikipedia Pageviews of Estonian MPs (2015–2023)”. In: Social Science Computer Review 0(0), pp. 1–28 https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251394710
Lupacheva, T. (2026). “No I in team? parties’ and voters’ gendered response to pronominal choice in parliamentary speechmaking in Estonia”. In: East European Politics 42(1), pp. 171–194. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2025.2555812
Daniel, William T., Max-Valentin Robert, Laurence Rowley-Abel, Elise Frelin, Valeriya Mechkova, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, and Steven Wilson. “France 2022 Candidate Dataset.” Digital Society Project.
- Balogh, Timea., Luxton, Louise., Frelin, Elise, Greene, Zoe. 2026. Voters don’t like politicians using AI. LSE British Politics and Policy Blog.
- Luxton, Louise., Frelin, Elise, Balogh, Timea., Greene, Zoe. 2026. From chatbots to the ballotbox – How voters used AI to learn about the Scottish Parliament election. Scottish Parliament Election Analysis 2026. The Campaign, Voters and Policies: Early Reflections from Leading Academics. P.15-17