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Empty Chairs in an Empty Chamber: Deconstructing the Myth of Debate in the U.S. Senate
(2022)
Debate in the U.S. Senate has been revered and mythologized throughout much of our history. The historical impression of Senate debate is that it is robust, civil, and well informed. At the same time, the terms deliberation ...
We (Not Them) The People: Populist Rhetoric in the Contemporary U.S. Congress
(2023-12)
This dissertation provides evidence that populist rhetoric shapes Congress, parties and individual politicians in rich and contextual ways. I collected a dataset of over 2 million tweets (2012-2020: Chapter 2) and over ...