Measuring Partisanship and Representation in Online Congressional Communications

Measuring Partisanship and Representation in Online Congressional Communications

In the face of the purported nationalization of political discourse in the United States, to what extent do congressional representatives still engage locally through their public communications? B...

In the face of the purported nationalization of political discourse in the United States, to what extent do congressional representatives still engage locally through their public communications? B...

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We assess the phenomenon of partisan temporal selective avoidance, or individuals dynamically altering their news consumption when news is negative toward their in- and out-party. Using nine months o...

We assess the phenomenon of partisan temporal selective avoidance, or individuals dynamically altering their news consumption when news is negative toward their in- and out-party. Using nine months o....

America is said to be more polarized than ever before, and extensive research examines the causes and effects of political polarization. A less studied but more pronounced trend is that citizens pe...