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Area of Science:

  • Political Science
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Communication Studies

Background:

  • Existing measures of political communication sophistication are inadequate for domain-specific analysis.
  • There is a need for improved methods to quantify the complexity of political texts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically review existing approaches and their limitations.
  • To develop and validate a novel, domain-specific measure of political communication sophistication.
  • To provide accessible software tools for applying the new measure.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of current methodologies.
  • Development of a new statistical model incorporating features like parts of speech and word rarity (dynamic term frequencies from Google Books).
  • Utilizing crowdsourcing for thousands of pairwise text snippet comparisons to train the model.

Main Results:

  • Identification of key features relevant to political communication sophistication.
  • Creation of a robust, scalable measure for assessing text sophistication.
  • Demonstration of how the new approach alters conclusions compared to existing methods, using the State of the Union corpus.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method offers a superior, domain-specific approach to measuring political communication sophistication.
  • The new measure facilitates probabilistic comparisons and analysis of complexity related to covariates.
  • This work provides valuable tools for political scientists to better understand political discourse.