What Would You Say? Measuring Ideological Speech Patterns with a Novel Survey Instrument

• In Event: The Role of Demographics and Networks in Media Usage and Ideological Orientation

Brief Overview

I introduce a survey measure of the liberal-conservative slant of respondents' speech patterns (speech ideology), and deploy this measure in experiments to address research questions about speech norms, self-censorship, and polarization.

Author

• William Schulz, Princeton University