2021
DOI: 10.1145/3467020
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Using Social Media Data to Analyse Issue Engagement During the 2017 German Federal Election

Abstract: A fundamental tenet of democracy is that political parties present policy alternatives, such that the public can participate in the decision-making process. Parties, however, strategically control public discussion by emphasising topics that they believe will highlight their strengths in voters’ minds. Political strategy has been studied for decades, mostly by manually annotating and analysing party statements, press coverage, or TV ads. Here we build on recent work in the areas of computational social science… Show more

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