Christopher Bail
Biographic Data
| ID | 8960844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Bail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Bail |
| SIGNATURE | BAIL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Enhancing joint ideal point estimation strategies with Twitter social networks and text data
Analyses of online social interactions on major platforms have become central to evaluating the ideological leanings of users. Social scientists often represent individuals’ policy preferences as ideal points in a low-dimensional space. We first demonstrate that standard ideal-point estimation approaches can be temporally inconsistent by examining the evolution of ideological positions for political elites and non-elite Twitter users from 2017 to…
Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. This book demonstrates how the beliefs of fanatics like Jones are inspired by a rapidly expand…
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Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. This book demonstrates how the beliefs of fanatics like Jones are inspired by a rapidly expand…
Enhancing joint ideal point estimation strategies with Twitter social networks and text data
Analyses of online social interactions on major platforms have become central to evaluating the ideological leanings of users. Social scientists often represent individuals’ policy preferences as ideal points in a low-dimensional space. We first demonstrate that standard ideal-point estimation approaches can be temporally inconsistent by examining the evolution of ideological positions for political elites and non-elite Twitter users from 2017 to…
Islam (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · politics and government (2 works) · Social conditions (2 works) · united states (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (1 works) · Corporations, religious (1 works) · Estimation (1 works)