Measuring and understanding parties' anti-elite strategies
Hauke Licht,
Tarik Abou-Chadi,
Pablo Barbera
et al.
Abstract:This article presents a new measure and analysis of parties' anti-elite appeals. In order to measure parties' anti-elite appeals we apply crowd-sourced coding, supervised machine learning, and novel cross-lingual transfer learning techniques to parties' Twitter posts.Our dataset records quarterly estimates of parties' anti-elite strategies for 20 countries between 2008 and 2021. Based on these indicators, we analyze whether parties' anti-elite rhetoric reflects the potential costs and benefits of this electora… Show more
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