Gender and Congressional Debate on Defense and Foreign Affairs

• In Event: Women in Legislative Politics

Brief Overview

We combine a newly developed technique for automated text analysis, structural topic modeling (STM), with a technique for ideological scaling of text (Wordfish) to explore sex differences in speeches delivered in the U.S. House.

Authors

• Mary Layton Atkinson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Reza Mousavi, University of North Carolina- Charlotte

• Jason Harold Windett, UNC- Charlotte