# The Impact of Incumbent/Opposition Status and Ideological Similitude on Emotions in Political Manifestos

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08383 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.08383/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 24 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 15 May 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Crowdsourcing a Word-Emotion Association Lexicon](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1308.6297/) (2013)
- [Frustratingly Easy Sentiment Analysis of Text Streams: Generating High-Quality Emotion Arcs Using Emotion Lexicons](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.07381/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The study involved the analysis of emotion-associated language in the UK Conservative and Labour party general election manifestos between 2000 to 2019. While previous research have shown a general correlation between ideological positioning and overlap of public policies, there are still conflicting results in matters of sentiments in such manifestos. Using new data, we present how valence level can be swayed by party status within government with incumbent parties presenting a higher frequency in positive emotion-associated words while negative emotion-associated words are more prevalent in opposition parties. We also demonstrate that parties with ideological similitude use positive language prominently further adding to the literature on the relationship between sentiments and party status.