ERC Consolidator Grant · 2019
For democracy, a necessary condition is openness to new political ideas. New ideas are often advanced by new political parties. New parties must rely on media to communicate with the electorate. In the process of that communication, it is inevitable that these media largely shape new parties’ public image. However, studies of new parties pay little attention to media. Vice versa, studies of media pay little attention to new parties. As a result, we lack a full explanation of new party emergence. This hinders our understanding of the openness of democratic systems, and of their current renewal. While Vox, M5S, and AfD experience unprecedented success, we hardly know 1. how (much) news media…
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