Measuring Partisanship in Congressional Speech

• In Event: Text as Data

Brief Overview

Many use legislator speech to understand partisanship and ideology; yet, different venues have differing norms and audiences. Here, we explore this through a comparison of member posturing across five venues.

Authors

• Kelsey Shoub, University of South Carolina

• Jonathan Green, Northeastern University

• Rachel M Blum, University of Oklahoma

• Lindsey Cormack, Stevens Institute of Technology