What is the role of social media in political agenda setting? Digital platforms have reduced
the gatekeeping power of traditional media and, potentially, they have increased the …

Political parties address the public through multiple communication channels
simultaneously, but this is not reflected in contemporary research. It is largely unclear how …

It has been well established that politicians attack their competitors to reach their political
goals. As such, there is a considerable amount of literature on their attack behaviour …

The main aim of this study is to investigate how political strategies (issue ownership, issue
trespassing, and issue extremeness) and communication styles (responsiveness and …

The ability of Members of Parliament (MPs) to know the policy preferences of their party
voters is a precondition for substantive representation. This study investigates whether MPs' …

Studies examining parties' attack behaviour, also called negative campaigning, largely
neglect temporal dynamics. Therefoe, this paper examines how the electoral cycle, the …

Communicative responsiveness of politicians to public opinion signals has become
increasingly important for politicians' electoral fate and citizens' sense of feeling …

This study analyses how information provided by different types of interest groups influences
the ability of members of parliament (MPs) to accurately perceive the preferences of those …

As artificial intelligence (AI) policy has begun to take shape in recent years, policy actors
have worked to influence policymakers by strategically promoting issue frames that define …

Various studies have been devoted to explaining the conditions under which parties engage
in attack behavior. However, the existing literature has overlooked the issues on which …