
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia
Abstract There is abundant anecdotal evidence that nondemocratic regimes are harnessing new digital technologies known as social media bots to facilitate policy goals. However, few previous attempts have been made to systematically analyze the [...]
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CC BY-NC-SA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001507
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Journal Articles

The Ties That Bind: Text Similarities and Conditional Diffusion among Parties
Abstract: Comparative analyses of party policy diffusion are only just emerging. To better understand the conditions under which diffusion occurs, this article argues that three heuristics – availability, representativeness and anchoring – sha [...]