Legislators’ Sentiment Analysis Supervised by Legislators

• In Event: New Approaches to Study Legislatures, Policy, and Political Systems

Brief Overview

To extract legislators’ sentiment, we propose a research design to exploit closing debates on a bill, where legislators themselves label their speech by pro or con. We apply our method to all speeches in the Japanese national legislature, 1955-2014.

Authors

• Akitaka Matsuo, University of Essex

• Kentaro Fukumoto, Gakushuin University