Facebook plays a key role in election campaigns because it provides strategic marketing
affordances for political parties' electoral goals. Organic media allow to engage regularly …

Far-right populist parties instrumentalize the media and intervene into processes of
mediatization in significantly different ways, depending on socio-political contexts, their …

This article examines how the German radical-right populist party the Alternative for
Germany (Alternative für Deutschland) and its politicians have engaged with the public …

This article examines how and why the covid-19 pandemic featured as a central issue in the
Alternative for Germany's 2021 Bundestag election campaign. Using a wide range of …

Journalists increasingly cite and/or embed social media posts in news articles. While social
media posts have been found to be of little deliberative quality, we do not know whether this …

Introduction: The mainstream media used political and media logic on religious populism to
reinforce ideological changes in contemporary society. This study investigated how media …

The use of negative campaigning is often explained by rational considerations; the more
perceived benefits exceed perceived costs, the more likely candidates are to attack their …

Spain seemed to be an exception in the European context as it had consistently maintained
more open attitudes towards immigration than the European average and there were no …

The rise of the far right is increasingly raising the question of whether partisanship can have
negative consequences for democracy. While issues such as partisan bias and affective …

Recent agenda-setting studies have increasingly replaced survey data with readily
available, nonreactive data that at first glance might serve as indicators of the public agenda …