The Effects of Political Martyrdom on Election Results: The Assassination of Abe
Miu Nicole Takagi
Abstract:In developed nations assassinations are rare and thus the impact of such acts
on the electoral and political landscape is understudied. In this paper, we
focus on Twitter data to examine the effects of Japan's former Primer Minister
Abe's assassination on the Japanese House of Councillors elections in 2022. We
utilize sentiment analysis and emotion detection together with topic modeling
on over 2 million tweets and compare them against tweets during previous
election cycles. Our findings indicate that Twitter … Show more
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