Campaign Activity and Voters' Perceptions of Candidate Ideology

• In Event: Computational Methods in American Politics

Brief Overview

Using the content of congressional campaigns' social media communications, we create a measure of campaign communicated ideology for all congressional candidates for office and examine its relationship with voters’ perceptions of candidate ideology.

Authors

• Hans J.G. Hassell, Florida State University

• Michael J Heseltine, University of Amsterdam

• Kevin Reuning, Miami University