Measuring Populism and Its Impacts

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Populist narratives appear in the text of speeches, newspapers, and politicians' tweets. This panel tackles how researchers can use automated methods of text analysis to measure populist narratives, how politicians change their speech to appeal to the public, and how these narratives influence public opinion. Papers in this panel measure populism both within the United States and around the world.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 8: Political Methodology

Individual Presentations

• Hooked With Phonetics: The Strategic Use of Style-Shifting in Political Rhetoric - Markus Neumann, Pennsylvania State University

• The Meaning of Populism: A Multi-country Text-as-data Analysis - A. Maurits van der Veen, College of William & Mary

• Establishment Responses to Populist Challenges: Evidence from Legislative Speech - Frederik Hjorth, University of Copenhagen

Chair

• Arthur Spirling New York University

Discussant

• Matthew Denny Facebook