The most unkindest cuts: Speaker selection and expressed government dissent during economic crisis

• Main Authors: HERZOG, Alexander, BENOIT, Kenneth
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Political Science; Social Influence and Political Communication
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3980; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5238/viewcontent/MostUnkindestCuts_2016_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Economic crisis and the resulting need for austerity budgets have divided many governing parties and coalitions in Europe despite strong party discipline in the legislative voting on these harsh budgets. We measure these divisions using automated text analysis methods to scale the positions that leg...