This article is based on a content analysis of the 17,811 Instagram posts made by all 534 members of the United States Congress who were seated for the duration of the first 6 months of the 115th session. I find that women are...
Hojnacki, Marie, Kathleen M. Marchetti, Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, David C. Kimball and Beth L. Leech. Assessing Business Advantage in Washington Lobbying.Interest Groups & Advocacy 4, no. 3 (2015):...
Aggregate studies find no effect of campaign advertising on voter turnout in the United States, thereby calling into question experimental and survey-based studies that produce strong turnout effects. In revisiting the debate...
Marchetti, Kathleen. Consider the Context: How State Policy Environments Shape Interest Group Advocacy.State and Local Government Review 47, no. 3 (2015): 155-169., How are the disadvantaged represented in politics?...
Public school board members are often our forgotten representatives. In the United States today, local governance in general has been ignored by many citizens. This is evidenced by the simplest, direct form of political...
The #MeToo movement began in 2006 through the activism of Tarana Burke (MeToo 2018) and gained prominence in October 2017 when actress Alyssa Milano used the hashtag to encourage survivors of sexual violence to “share their...
Presidential candidates in the United States do not intentionally advertise in states without rigorous competition for electoral votes. However, in some areas of noncompetitive states, media markets overlap with battleground...
The purpose of this paper to understand why some members of Congress have more Instagram followers, and why some Congressional Instagram posts receive more likes and comments. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on...
During World War II, advocates for India’s independence attempted to raise awareness and support in the United States by aligning their cause with the liberal and Wilsonian spirit of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. To...
Advocacy groups working on behalf of people typically underrepresented in US politics (e.g., women, racial minorities, the poor) frequently advocate for policy benefits on behalf of their constituents. These organizations have...
