Tell It Like It Is: A Text Analysis of Firm Rationales for Political Participation in the Middle East

• In Event: Politically-Connected Firms in the Developing World

Brief Overview

This papers uses the structural topic model to examine how the content of firm rationales for political participation varies with respect to a survey experiment offering the firm resources in exchange for election financing.

Authors

• Robert Kubinec, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Hamza Mighri, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University