Sentiment in Public Opinion and News Media

• In Event: Media and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

We aggregate twenty years of polls and television transcripts to develop measures of public and media "sentiment" about the state of the country, assessing the dynamic and potentially reciprocal relationship between the two.

Authors

• Gavin Ploger, University of Pennsylvania

• Stuart Soroka, University of California-Los Angeles

• Christopher Wlezien, The University of Texas at Austin

• Michael W Traugott, University of Michigan