Disentangling Political Manifestos for Issue-Specificity in Indian General Elections

• In Event: Voting, Elections, Campaigns in South Asia

Brief Overview

We develop a novel dataset on media coverage of manifesto issues during India’s 2014–2024 general elections, employing computational text analysis to relate issues to sentiment scores, salience, and incumbency effects.

Authors

• Shiladitya Kumar, University of Houston

• Madhavi Devasher, University of New Hampshire, Main Campus