Nitheesha Nakka
Biographic Data
| ID | 4386669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nitheesha Nakka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nitheesha |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakka |
| SIGNATURE | NAKKA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9391-3631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The national network of US state legislators on Twitter
Networks among legislators shape politics and policymaking within legislative institutions. In past work on legislative networks, the ties between legislators have been defined on those who serve in the same legislature or chamber. Online information networks, which have been found to play important roles in legislative communication at the national level, are not bounded by individual legislative bodies. We collect original data for over four th…
Attention to the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators
Subnational governments in the United States have taken the lead on many aspects of the response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Variation in government activity across states offers the opportunity to analyze responses in comparable settings. We study a common and informative activity among state officials—state legislators’ attention to the pandemic on Twitter. We find that legislators’ attention to the pandemic strongly correlates with the number of…
Attention to the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators
Subnational governments in the United States have taken the lead on many aspects of the response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Variation in government activity across states offers the opportunity to analyze responses in comparable settings. We study a common and informative activity among state officials—state legislators’ attention to the pandemic on Twitter. We find that legislators’ attention to the pandemic strongly correlates with the number of…
Attention to the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators
Subnational governments in the United States have taken the lead on many aspects of the response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Variation in government activity across states offers the opportunity to analyze responses in comparable settings. We study a common and informative activity among state officials—state legislators’ attention to the pandemic on Twitter. We find that legislators’ attention to the pandemic strongly correlates with the number of…
The national network of US state legislators on Twitter
Networks among legislators shape politics and policymaking within legislative institutions. In past work on legislative networks, the ties between legislators have been defined on those who serve in the same legislature or chamber. Online information networks, which have been found to play important roles in legislative communication at the national level, are not bounded by individual legislative bodies. We collect original data for over four th…
Political science (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Social Media and Politics (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Algorithm (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (1 works) · Democracy (1 works) · Development economics (1 works)