Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Measuring Polarization with Text Analysis: Evidence from the UK House of Commons, 1811–2015 (2019, background): “And in the US context, Grimmer (2013) shows that legislators with extreme preferences are more likely to speak in policy debates while moderates stick tocredit claiming, artificiallyboosting levelsofpolarization.”
How Party Polarization Affects Governance (2015, background): “The most ideologically consistent and party-loyal members take the lead in these messaging efforts; moderate and cross-pressured members tend not to participate (Grimmer 2013).”
Photographic home styles in Congress: a computer vision approach (2016, background): “h a number of online platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and MCs own .gov web pages hosted on U.S. government servers (Adler, Gent, and Overmeyer 1998; Esterling, Lazer, and Neblo 2012; Grimmer 2013; Gulati and Williams 2013; Peterson 2012). In the United States, juxtapositions of poli”