MPs use emotive rhetoric to sway voters in high-profile debates
Hobolt, S.
, Osnabrügge, M. & Rodon, T.
(4 August 2021)
MPs use emotive rhetoric to sway voters in high-profile debates.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
, Osnabrügge, M. & Rodon, T.
(4 August 2021)
MPs use emotive rhetoric to sway voters in high-profile debates.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
Covering two million parliamentary speeches held in the UK House of Commons and the Irish Parliament, Sara B. Hobolt, Moritz Osnabrügge, and Toni Rodon use a dictionary-based method to measure emotive rhetoric. They show that emotive rhetoric is more pronounced in high-profile legislative debates, such as Prime Minister’s Questions, illustrating that emotive rhetoric is one of the tools politicians can use strategically to appeal to voters.