Dominic Nyhuis (PhD in Political Science, University of Mannheim) is a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on comparative legislative studies with a particular emphasis on questions of representation, elite political behavior, and municipal politics. He is also interested in techniques for automated data collection, quantitative methods for the social sciences and quantitative text analysis in particular.