Reciting Party Lines and Acting for Audiences: Topic Dominance and Welfare Discourse in State Legislative Campaigns

• In Event: Campaign Rhetoric and Scandals

Brief Overview

We use extracted statements from campaign websites and a LDA model to explore the relationship between partisanship and district economic conditions on the framing associated with economic issues in state legislative campaign races from 2018-2022.

Authors

• Joshua Len Meyer-Gutbrod, University of South Carolina

• Ryan Dennehy, University of South Carolina