Who supports Bernie? Analyzing identity and ideological variation on Twitter during the 2020 democratic primaries. by Stef M Shuster, Celeste Campos-Castillo, Navid Madani, Kenneth Joseph

“…Using a novel dataset of 590M messages by 21M users, we present the first large-scale examination of the behavior of likely Bernie supporters on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. Democratic primaries and presidential election. We use these data to dispel empirically the notion of a unified, stereotypical Bernie supporter (e.g., the "Bernie Bro"). …”
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Demographic Disparities Using Ranked-Choice Voting? Ranking Difficulty, Under-Voting, and the 2020 Democratic Primary by Joseph A. Coll

Subjects: “…democratic primaries…”
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Electability salience can bias voting decisions by William Minozzi, Jonathan Woon

“…“Electability” received considerable attention during the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, with some critics claiming that the term was code for sexism. …”
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Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries by Trent Ollerenshaw

“…Overall, I find authoritarianism was moderately associated with support for Clinton over Sanders among Democratic primary voters, but weakly associated with support for Trump among Republican primary voters. …”
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Politics and Politeness: Analysis of Incivility on Twitter During the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary by Briana M. Trifiro, Sejin Paik, Zhixin Fang, Li Zhang

“…Using Suler’s online disinhibition effect as a theoretical orientation, this study seeks to address the extent of incivility on Twitter in discourse regarding the top three 2020 Democratic primary candidates. A total corpus of 18,237,296 tweets was analyzed in an effort to assess the extent to which incivility dominated Twitter discourse surrounding these candidates. …”
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Group Heterogeneity and Affective Polarization Within The Democratic Party by Kang, In Hee

“…However, in recent election years the Democratic primary campaigns have exhibited a growing hostility between different ideological factions within the party. …”
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AN UPHILL BATTLE FOR REPARATIONISTS by Michael Conklin

“…The recent surge in popularity of reparations discussions from Democratic primary candidates brings this issue to the forefront. …”
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Do people want smarter ballots? by André Blais, Carolina Plescia, Semra Sevi

“…We conducted two independent yet complementary survey experiments at the time of the Super Tuesday Democratic primaries to examine which voting method citizens prefer, one with the real candidates in the states holding Democratic primaries and one with fictitious candidates in the whole country. …”
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Professionnalisation des enseignants et démocratisation scolaire : une formation initiale pensée à l’aune de la réduction des inégalités scolaires ? by Claire Benveniste

“…Despite orders to implement "good practices", considered "effective", or even democratizing, primary school teachers ultimately have few resources to act on the conditions of equal access for all to school knowledge.…”
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Making Transportable Identities Relevant as a Persuasive Device. The Case of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Concession Speech by Dorien Van De Mieroop

“…I discuss the case of the concession speech Hillary Rodham Clinton gave on June, 7th 2008 after she lost against Barack Obama in the Democratic Primaries. In order to successfully reposition herself from an opponent to a supporter of Obama, Clinton draws on several aspects of her transportable identity to stress the similarity between herself and Obama. …”
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