Many legislators around the word are offering the use of web based e-petitioning platforms to allow their electorate to influence government policy and action. A popular e-petition can gain much coverage, both in traditional media and social media. The task then becomes how to understand what features may make an e-petition popular and hence, potentially influential. One area of investigation is the linguistic and topical content of the supporting e-petition text. This study takes an existing methodology previously applied to the American government's e-petition platform and replicates the study for the United Kingdom's equivalent platform. This allows an insight into not only the United Kingdom's e-petition process but also a comparison with a similar platform. We find that when assessing an e-petition's popularity, the control variables are significant in both countries, e-petitions in the United Kingdom are more popular if some named entities are used in the text, and that topics are commonly more influential in America.

这个词的许多立法者都提供基于Web的电子信访平台的使用，以使他们的选民能够影响政府的政策和行动。受欢迎的电子请愿书可以在传统媒体和社交媒体中获得广泛报道。然后，任务就变成了如何理解哪些功能可以使电子请愿书流行并因此而具有潜在的影响力。研究的领域之一是电子请愿文本的语言和主题内容。这项研究采用了以前应用于美国政府的电子请愿平台的现有方法，并复制了英国同等平台的研究。这不仅可以洞悉英国的电子请愿程序，而且可以与类似的平台进行比较。我们发现，在评估电子请愿书的受欢迎程度时，