In this entry, we discuss the opportunities and challenges of comparative research. We
outline the major obstacles in terms of building a comparative theoretical framework …

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

In this article we review research published since the publication of Comparing Media
Systems which seeks to operationalize concepts discussed in that work and to test the …

Mediatization is emerging as an influential new concept that places the media at the centre
of all kinds of important cultural, political and social developments. However, it has so far …

In this work, brand activism is defined as a strategy that seeks to influence citizen-consumers
by means of campaigns created and sustained by political values. It involves a …

Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of
scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations …

Building on the assumption that journalists' attitudes toward public institutions can contribute
to a decline in public trust, this article sets out to identify the driving forces behind journalists' …

Faced with increasing governance tensions to cope with conflicts and risks associated with
megaprojects, relationship management is seen as an essential aspect for improving …

This study is the first comparative analysis of mediated political personalization in the
international arena; its contribution to the research in the field is twofold:(a) through a …

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe,
and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a …