Using Network Motifs to Detect Support for and Opposition to Populist Narratives at the Sub-sentence Level

• In Event: Anti-Establishment Candidates and Populism

Brief Overview

We identify populist narratives as motifs that can recur within and across texts. We extend the PULSAR project to identify specific sentences and paragraphs as carrying either pro-populist or anti-populist narratives.

Authors

• Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani, Princeton University

• Bree Bang-Jensen, University of Washington

• Michael Colaresi, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus