The Emerging Fault Line of Partisan Media: Intra-Party Division in Republican Representatives' News Engagement

• In Event: The Trump Presidency's Impact on Republican Party Communication

Brief Overview

We develop a new measure for scaling Republicans in Congress over time based on their engagement with partisan news media online. We demonstrate intra-party alignment along the ‘traditional’ ideological spectrum rather than the Trumpian dimension.

Authors

• Mike Cowburn, Freie Universität Berlin Graduate School for North American Studies

• Curd Knüpfer, Free University of Berlin