From our FirstView: More than Symbols: The Effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support by @theodoretallent.bsky.social, @malojan.bsky.social and @luissattelmayer.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Do climate proposals pay off at the ballot box?
While climate denial is strongly penalised, supporting climate goals is electorally rewarding, contrary to backing ambitious, concrete climate policies, @malojan.bsky.social shows in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
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American Political Science Review
Applying existing issue classifiers directly to social media is difficult: a substantial share of posts is non-policy content (eg. media appearances,). We address this with a two-step pipeline, a policy/non-policy classifier, followed by a CAP issue classifier developed by @poltextlab.bsky.social
Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
Hi #ica26. We have an open 4.5 yr Postdoc position @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Berlin in PolComm/Comp Social Scienes on opinion dynamics in climate topics.
Hit me up if you want a to talk about it in CT or send to colleagues who might be interested.
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Malo Jan
Jakob Ohme
Last, as an illustrative application, we examine whether mainstream parties' attention to immigration on social media is associated with subsequent radical right polling. We find a positive association at t-1, holding for attention from both center-right and center-left parties.
Malo Jan
New OSF preprint with @luissattelmayer.bsky.social 🦋: "Issue Competition on Social Media. A new comparative dataset on parties' issue agendas in 18 countries."
We introduce a dataset of party issue agendas built from 4.6M social media posts across Twitter/Facebook/Instagram, covering 219 parties.
Existing measures of party issue agendas, with exception of the PARTYPRESS dataset, rely largely on manifestos, which are tied to election cycles. Social media offers a more continuous, immediate, and high-frequency record of party communication at scale.
The preprint is available on OSF and the data is available on request until publication of the accompanying research note! If you have feedback, we'd be very happy to hear what you think! osf.io/preprints/so...
We compare our measures with the PARTYPRESS data (@cornelius-erfort.bsky.social) showing convergence but also important differences highlighting the value of both datasets for the study of issue agendas. Differences likely arise from the different data generating process/frequency of the two sources
The classifications respond as expected to two well-known external shocks: Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 (Defense, Energy, International Affairs) and the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020 (Health, alongside a drop in non-policy content).
