Pandemic Messaging: Congressional Communication and the Mechanisms of Polarizing Rhetoric

Gardner, Tanya; Russell, Annelise

doi:10.1080/07343469.2022.2121449

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“…2021). Gardner and Russell (2022) also show that among senators, Republicans were more likely to tweet positively about economic recovery, while Democrats tweeted negatively about failures of the government in addressing the pandemic. H2 : Women representatives and senators will send more tweets that discuss the COVID‐19 pandemic than their male counterparts. H3 : Democratic women will send more tweets that discuss the COVID‐19 pandemic as a woman's issue. …”

Section: Gender Differences In Congressional Communication and Behaviormentioning

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“…Furthermore, research has shown that state legislators exhibited partisan differences in their communication on Twitter, with Democrats emphasizing health indicators and impacts with respect to COVID-19, while Republicans emphasized business impacts of COVID-19 and reopening the economy (Kim et al 2021). Gardner and Russell (2022) also show that among senators, Republicans were more likely to tweet positively about economic recovery, while Democrats tweeted negatively about failures of the government in addressing the pandemic.…”

Section: Gender Differences In Congressional Communication and Behaviormentioning

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Gender and attention to and framing of COVID‐19 in congressional tweets

Evans

Clark

2023

Social Science Quarterly

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Background Previous research demonstrates that congressional communication on Twitter is gendered. Congresswomen are more likely to tweet about issues than Congressmen during elections, and they are also more likely to tweet about “women's issues” (healthcare, education, reproductive rights, welfare) than their male counterparts. Objectives Given the partisan and gendered coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic effects researchers have documented, we examine whether Congressmembers. communication about COVID‐19 is also gendered and partisan. Methods To examine how Senators and House Representatives were discussing the pandemic online, we collected the tweets sent by members of both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate from February 1st until May 14th, 2020. Results Gender and partisanship shape how members communicate about COVID‐19 on Twitter, and this is especially pronounced in the framing of COVID‐19 in terms of “women's issues.” Conclusion We find evidence that there is a gendered partisan divide in both the frequency and framing of the issue on Twitter. This divide is likely to continue to shape how the public thinks about the pandemic and how elites. respond to the pandemic.

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Section: Gender Differences In Congressional Communication and Behaviormentioning

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Section: Gender Differences In Congressional Communication and Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and attention to and framing of COVID‐19 in congressional tweets

Evans

Clark

2023

Social Science Quarterly

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Stop the War, for Godsake!: A Text Analysis of Speeches of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President

Polo

Saxena

Alexopoulos

2023

International Journal of Public Administration

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Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting

Kaslovsky,

Kistner

2024

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Do representatives change their messaging to match the partisanship of their district? Prior studies of Congressional communication reveal a correspondence between district and member partisanship, but rely on cross‐sectional comparisons that do not distinguish between the role of electoral selection versus re‐election incentives. In this paper, we address this gap using decennial redistricting, examining how the partisan extremity of members' social media posts changes when they are redistricted into more partisan or more moderate districts. We find clear evidence of rhetorical responsiveness to the new constituency. Additional analyses show that rhetorical responsiveness complements roll call responsiveness, but is greater in magnitude. We argue that rhetorical responsiveness is normatively complex, potentially aiding representational processes but also possibly contributing to affective polarization. An examination of changes in specific word usage following redistricting supports the latter concern.

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Pandemic Messaging: Congressional Communication and the Mechanisms of Polarizing Rhetoric

Cited by 3 publications

References 78 publications

Gender and attention to and framing of COVID‐19 in congressional tweets

Gender and attention to and framing of COVID‐19 in congressional tweets

Stop the War, for Godsake!: A Text Analysis of Speeches of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President

Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting

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