A Convincing Pitch: Identity Claims in Political Speech

• In Event: The New Politics of K-12 Education

Brief Overview

We use public comments from more than 200,000 school board and city council meetings to understand the ways that identity claims are strategically used to persuade others in public political appeals.

Authors

• Asli Ceren Cinar, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Mirya R Holman, University of Houston

• Tyler Simko, University of Michigan