Text has always been an important data source in political science. What has changed in
recent years is the feasibility of investigating large amounts of text quantitatively. The internet …

Despite the popularity of unsupervised techniques for political science text-as-data research,
the importance and implications of preprocessing decisions in this domain have received …

Politics and political conflict often occur in the written and spoken word. Scholars have long
recognized this, but the massive costs of analyzing even moderately sized collections of …

I develop a method to measure the ideology of candidates and contributors using campaign
finance data. Combined with a data set of over 100 million contribution records from state …

Previous methods of analyzing the substance of political attention have had to make several
restrictive assumptions or been prohibitively costly when applied to large‐scale political …

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world From social
media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers …

Scholars estimating policy positions from political texts typically code words or sentences
and then build left‐right policy scales based on the relative frequencies of text units coded …

Entries in the burgeoning “text-as-data” movement are often accompanied by lists or
visualizations of how word (or other lexical feature) usage differs across some pair or set of …

This book demonstrates the consequences of legislators' strategic communication for
representation in American politics. Representational Style in Congress shows how …

Many parties have seen declines in working-class legislators and increases in professional
career politicians. I argue that career politicians are more likely to adopt policies for strategic …