Home Styled Tweets: When do U.S. Senators make the switch from national policy-based tweets to constituent-based tweets?

• In Event: Understanding Congressional Communication

Brief Overview

Using a dataset of tweets from all senators within the past 5 years, we test whether senators, who are facing reelection, will post fewer national-policy tweets and post more tweets that speak to their voting constituents.

Authors

• Stephanie Ramsey Davis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

• Lee Demetrius Walker, National Science Foundation