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Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts
- Justin Grimmer, Brandon M Stewart
- SociologyPolitical Analysis
- 1 July 2013
Politics and political conflict often occur in the written and spoken word. Scholars have long recognized this, but the massive costs of analyzing even moderately sized collections of texts have…
A Bayesian Hierarchical Topic Model for Political Texts: Measuring Expressed Agendas in Senate Press Releases
- Justin Grimmer
- SociologyPolitical Analysis
- 21 December 2010
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Are Close Elections Random
- Justin Grimmer, Eitan Hersh, Brian D. Feinstein, D. Carpenter
- Sociology
- 2011
Elections with small margins of victory represent an important form of democratic competition and, increasingly, an opportunity for causal inference. When scholars use close elections for examining…
Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters
- Justin Grimmer
- Psychology
- 23 December 2013
1. Representation inside and outside Congress 2. Representation and evaluation on the senator's terms 3. Measuring presentational styles with Senate press releases 4. Measuring presentational styles…
Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President—What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know
- Justin Grimmer
- Political SciencePublic Opinion Quarterly
- 21 May 2019
General purpose computer-assisted clustering and conceptualization
- Justin Grimmer, Gary King
- Computer ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 3 February 2011
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Appropriators not Position Takers: The Distorting Effects of Electoral Incentives on Congressional Representation
- Justin Grimmer
- Political Science
- 1 July 2013
Congressional districts create two levels of representation. Studies of representation focus on a disaggregated level: the electoral connection between representatives and constituents. But there is…
Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and the Effects of Heterogeneous Treatments with Ensemble Methods
- Justin Grimmer, Solomon Messing, S. Westwood
- EconomicsPolitical Analysis
- 4 September 2017
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How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Effect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit Allocation
- Justin Grimmer, Solomon Messing, S. Westwood
- EconomicsAmerican Political Science Review
- 16 August 2012
Particularistic spending, a large literature argues, builds support for incumbents. This literature equates money spent in the district with the credit constituents allocate. Yet, constituents lack…
How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts
- Naoki Egami, Christian Fong, Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M Stewart
- Computer ScienceArXiv
- 6 February 2018
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