What They Say, or How They Say It? Content and Affect in Election Observation Reports

• In Event: Public Opinion and Intervention

Brief Overview

How and on what basis do international election observation missions evaluate elections? We use quantitative text analysis to examine variation in content and tone of election observation reports from over 1000 elections and 20 years.

Authors

• Andy Andrew Harris, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Zach Warner, Purdue University

• Waleed Hashmi, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Ethan Fulton, New York University Abu Dhabi