I am a 3rd year PhD Student in Harvard's Department of Government. My primary research interests include causal inference, the statistical analysis of political texts, and Bayesian methods--applied to understand how political elites persuade the public and how citizens evaluate elected officials. My dissertation project develops a method for measuring the attention individual actors dedicate to topics in political rhetoric. I apply the method to a new data set of press releases from Members of Congress, addressing questions from the dimensionality of conflict in Congress to the health of deliberation in American democracy.
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Isabella Terese Grimmer
