Framing, the effect of context on cognitive processes, is a prominent topic of research in psychology and public opinion research. Research on framing has traditionally relied on controlled experiments and manually annotated document collections. In this paper we present a method that allows for quantifying the relative strengths of competing linguistic frames based on corpus analysis. This met...

In a country where only two political parties — the Democrats and Republicans — have dominated electoral politics since the Civil War, any electoral headway by a third party or candidate is a noteworthy event. Setting aside Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party effort, Perot’s 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992 was the largest third party popular vote since the Civil War. By running again in 1996 a...

Background The voting behaviors of elected officials shape the public's health. Little is known, however, about the characteristics of elected officials who vote in concordance with public health policy recommendations. This article presents the results of study conducted with the aims of: 1) testing the hypothesis that US Democrat Senators vote in concordance with American Public Health Associ...

Many “pro-life” or anti-abortion advocates are Christians who believe that (1) there exists an all-powerful, all-knowing, and morally perfect god created our universe; (2) restricting abortion ought to be a top social political priority; (3) embryos fetuses die all go hell they heaven. This paper seeks establish Christian pro-life with these beliefs face the Afterlife Dilemma. On one hand, if h...

Abstract This article examines how challenger parties enter the political arena and effect of this entry by looking at Italian 5 Star Movement (Movimento Stelle – M5S). We explain M5S's strategy in 2013 using spatial approach to party competition employing expert survey data collected for each national election between 2008 2018. These allow us analyse changing configuration politics due increa...

Political scientists have acknowledged the importance of nationalism as a constitutive element radical-right politics but typically empirically reduced phenomenon to specific out-group sentiments. Sociologists, in contrast, devoted more attention theorizing and operationalizing only sporadically engaged debates about institutional politics. The present study brings these literatures together by...

We show that the demand for news varies with the perceived affinity of the news organization to the consumer’s political preferences. In an experimental setting, conservatives and Republicans preferred to read news reports attributed to Fox News and to avoid news from CNN and NPR. Democrats and liberals exhibited exactly the opposite syndrome -dividing their attention equally between CNN and NP...

But, as with health care reform, Democrats and Republicans face off across a wide philosophical gulf.