Winning Campaigns Online: Strategies for Candidates and Causes
Winning Campaigns Online: Strategies for Candidates and Causes
What's congress doing on twitter?
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Running on the Web: Online Self-Presentation Strategies in Mixed-Gender Races
Social Science Computer Review
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When candidates engage in robust policy debate, it gives citizens clear choices on issues that matter. Previous studies of issue engagement have primarily used indicators of campaign strategy that are mediated by reporters (e.g., newspaper articles) or indicators that may exclude candidates in less competitive races (e.g., television advertisements). We study issue engagement with data from a unique source, congressional candidate Web sites, that are unmediated and representative of both House and Senate campaigns. We find that the saliency of issues in public opinion is a primary determinant of candidate engagement. And, despite the unique capacity of the Internet to allow candidates to explain their positions on a large number of issues, candidates continue to behave strategically, selecting a few issues on which to engage their adversaries.