Terrorism, Language, and Voting (IMAGE)

Bocconi University

Terrorism, Language, and Voting

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Following the series of terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2017, German twitter users shifted their language towards that of the far right AfD party, treating immigration as a security threat. Eventually voters rewarded the party at the 2017 election, as Gaia Rubera (Bocconi University, Milan) and Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi University, Milan), with former Bocconi students Felix Iglhaut (now at the LSE PhD program) and Giacomo Lemoli (now at the New York University PhD program) found

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Weiwei Chen, Bocconi University, Milan

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