Party Lines and Personal Narratives: The Ideological Positioning of Underrepresented Members of Congress

• In Event: Advances in Measurement of Ideology and Party Loyalty

Brief Overview

This paper uses a novel text-analysis approach to develop ideological measures of speech, social media posts, and votes to evaluate how women and minority members of Congress express themselves compared to their party.

Authors

• SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, College of the Holy Cross

• Kris Miler, University of Maryland-College Park