Vox Populism: exploring the populist content of presidential campaigns from 1828 to 2020

• In Event: JSS 7
  In JSS Session: JSS: Rhetoric, Partisanship, and Ideology

Brief Overview

Using pre-trained word and sentence embeddings combined with machine learning, I create a measure of populism with high out-of-sample prediction performance. I apply the model to US presidential campaign communication from 1828 to the present.

Author

• Caleb Mark Ziolkowski, University of California-Los Angeles