Emotion and reason in political language

G Gennaro, E Ash - The Economic Journal, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies the use of emotion and reason in political discourse. Adopting
computational-linguistics techniques to construct a validated text-based scale, we measure …

The curious case of Theresa May and the public that did not rally: Gendered reactions to terrorist attacks can cause slumps not bumps

MR Holman, JL Merolla… - American Political Science …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Terrorist attacks routinely produce rallies for incumbent men in the executive office. With
scarce cases, there has been little consideration of terrorism's consequences for evaluations …

Ethnic bias in judicial decision making: Evidence from criminal appeals in Kenya

DD Choi, JA Harris, F Shen-Bayh - American Political Science …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Understanding sources of judicial bias is essential for establishing due process. To date,
theories of judicial decision making are rooted in ranked societies with majority–minority …

The Liar's Dividend: Can Politicians Claim Misinformation to Evade Accountability?

KJ Schiff, DS Schiff, NS Bueno - American Political Science Review, 2023 - cambridge.org
This study addresses the phenomenon of misinformation about misinformation, or politicians
“crying wolf” over fake news. Strategic and false claims that stories are fake news or …

No longer conforming to stereotypes? Gender, political style and parliamentary debate in the UK

L Hargrave, J Blumenau - British Journal of Political Science, 2022 - cambridge.org
Research on political style suggests that where women make arguments that are more
emotional, empathetic and positive, men use language that is more analytical, aggressive …

Parselmouth for bioacoustics: automated acoustic analysis in Python

Y Jadoul, B De Boer, A Ravignani - Bioacoustics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Bioacoustics increasingly relies on large datasets and computational methods. The need to
batch-process large amounts of data and the increased focus on algorithmic processing …

Distinctive voices: Political speech, rhetoric, and the substantive representation of women in European Parliaments

J Wäckerle, B Castanho Silva - Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As the share of women in parliaments rises, increased attention is paid to how they
substantively represent women. Meanwhile, the availability of parliamentary speech data …

Gender differences and similarities in news media effects on political candidate evaluations: a meta-analysis

T Rohrbach, L Aaldering… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
How do different types of media coverage shape—and potentially bias—voter evaluations of
women and men politicians? Theoretically reviewing 50 experimental studies and …

Perceived gender and political persuasion: a social media field experiment during the 2020 US Democratic presidential primary election

A Combs, G Tierney, F Alqabandi, D Cornell… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Women have less influence than men in a variety of settings. Does this result from
stereotypes that depict women as less capable, or biased interpretations of gender …

Gendered times: How gendered contexts shape campaign messages of female candidates

NM Bauer, M Santia - Journal of Communication, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We develop and test a theory of gendered political times, which argues that the gendered
political climate during an election shapes the extent to which female candidates emphasize …