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How Populistic were the Populists in 19th Century America?: Analysis by Automated Textual Analysis

06 January 2021, Version 1
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Abstract

In this article, the author seeks to demonstrate how (and in what way) populistic the politicians of the People's Party in 19th America were. The ideational approach of populism with automated textual analysis -- such as word2vec, LDA, and cosine similarity -- is adopted in this article to answer the question.

Keywords

ideational approach
quantitative textual analysis
dictionary-based sentiment analysis
cosine similarity
topic model (Latent Dirichlet Allocation)
word2vec
the People's Party
populism

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DOI

10.33774/apsa-2021-zlmp8
D O I: 10.33774/apsa-2021-zlmp8 [opens in a new tab]

Funding

JSPS KAKENHI
18K01418　
JSPS KAKENHI
18H03619
JSPS KAKENHI
20KK0026

Author’s competing interest statement

The author(s) have declared they have no conflict of interest with regard to this content

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