Birds of the same feather tweet together: Bayesian ideal point estimation using twitter data

Political Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 76-91

  Barberá, Pablo ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84940037120     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: 14764989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpu011     Document Type: Article

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