The Effects of Mass Shootings on State Legislation: A New Methodological Approach

• In Event: Policing, Violence, and Criminal Justice Policy

Brief Overview

We combine two advanced methodological approaches (NLP and Bayesian VAR models) to study how mass shootings impact legislation, while controlling for a variety of factors that can affect legislative response.

Authors

• Iliyan Iliev, University of Southern Mississippi

• Joshua Hill, University of Southern Mississippi