Replication Data for: Lexical Ambiguity in Political Rhetoric - Why Morality Doesn t Fit in a Bag of Words

Using a novel sentence embedding approach, we show that although liberal and conservative politicians use the same moral terms, they attach diverging meanings to these values. Accordingly, the politics of morality is not about the promotion of specific moral values per se, but rather a competition over their respective meaning. Our results highlight that simple dictionary-based methods to measure moral rhetoric may be insufficient since they fail to account for the semantic contexts in which words are used and therefore risk overlooking important features of political communication and party competition.