An impressive breadth of interdisciplinary research suggests that emotions have an influence on human behavior. Nonetheless, we still know very little about the emotional states of those actors whose daily decisions have a lasting impact on our societies: politicians in parliament. We address this question by making use of methods of natural language processing and a digitized corpus of text data spanning a century of parliamentary debates in the United Kingdom. We use this approach to examine changes in aggregate levels of emotional polarity in the British parliament, and to test a hypothesis about the emotional response of politicians to economic recessions. Our findings suggest that, contrary to popular belief, the mood of politicians ha...
Emotions are an inevitable part of everyday life. They can greatly influence human experience and ac...
The Parliament is a place of discourses. More than the physical aspect it is important to consider t...
Though scholars have long acknowledged the vital role of affect in politics, recent research has sou...
An impressive breadth of interdisciplinary research suggests that emotions have an influence on huma...
This paper studies the use of emotion and reason in political discourse. Adopting computational-ling...
[EN] An ever-increasing interest on the expression of emotions can be seen in the proliferation of s...
Parliamentary and legislative debate transcripts provide access to information concerning the opinio...
How do emotional responses influence the choices of voters? Markus Wagner writes on the role of emot...
Within this paper, the relationship between citizens’ emotional reactions to politi-cal reporting an...
It is known that the political discourse “attack” on the two plans: of conviction (rational dimensio...
Politicians are skilled language users who deploy words strategically and pay close attention to the...
How do politicians make political arguments? What has changed in the substantive agenda of the House...
Political scientists can rely on a long tradition of applying unsupervised measurement models to es...
First published online: 27 September 2020Are populists really more emotional than mainstream parties...
Legislative debates are understudied in political science. Modern tools for analyzing speech content...
Emotions are an inevitable part of everyday life. They can greatly influence human experience and ac...
The Parliament is a place of discourses. More than the physical aspect it is important to consider t...
Though scholars have long acknowledged the vital role of affect in politics, recent research has sou...
An impressive breadth of interdisciplinary research suggests that emotions have an influence on huma...
This paper studies the use of emotion and reason in political discourse. Adopting computational-ling...
[EN] An ever-increasing interest on the expression of emotions can be seen in the proliferation of s...
Parliamentary and legislative debate transcripts provide access to information concerning the opinio...
How do emotional responses influence the choices of voters? Markus Wagner writes on the role of emot...
Within this paper, the relationship between citizens’ emotional reactions to politi-cal reporting an...
It is known that the political discourse “attack” on the two plans: of conviction (rational dimensio...
Politicians are skilled language users who deploy words strategically and pay close attention to the...
How do politicians make political arguments? What has changed in the substantive agenda of the House...
Political scientists can rely on a long tradition of applying unsupervised measurement models to es...
First published online: 27 September 2020Are populists really more emotional than mainstream parties...
Legislative debates are understudied in political science. Modern tools for analyzing speech content...
Emotions are an inevitable part of everyday life. They can greatly influence human experience and ac...
The Parliament is a place of discourses. More than the physical aspect it is important to consider t...
Though scholars have long acknowledged the vital role of affect in politics, recent research has sou...