The War of Words: Partisan Rhetoric in the House of Representatives

• In Event: Position Taking and the Public

Brief Overview

We use a dataset of one-minute speeches in the House from 1989-2018 to examine shifts in partisan rhetoric in Congress over the last several decades, with a specific focus on the use of speeches to attack the opposition party and the president.

Authors

• Logan Dancey, Wesleyan University

• Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities