Issue Ownership, Electoral Accountability, and Politicians' Social Media Posts: Evidence from the George Floyd Protests

• In Event: News, Local News and Accountability

Brief Overview

Based on multi-level and topic modeling analyses of a computationally-compiled dataset, this study examines how U.S. politicians between the major parties differ with respect to expressive behavior on social media around the issue of racial justice.

Authors

• Yul Min Park, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

• Theodore Charm, The University of Texas at Austin