With popular discourse increasingly referring to Vladimir Putin's 'brand', this article seeks to
apply the conceptual framework of branding to Putin in order to provide a richer …

Elections as a core institution of democracy may be a crucial channel for politicizing
inequality issues by granting equal political rights to the majority. However, electoral politics …

This thesis explores the reception of audiovisual rhetoric in the form of political advertising. I
argue that political ads can function as a resource for citizens. The ads allow people to enact …

Abstract [eng] The doctoral dissertation analyses the factors influencing the personalization
of leaders of Lithuanian political parties. The factors are divided into three sets of variables …

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between candidate-centered
evaluations and volatile voting behavior in terms of party switching. It is assumed that there …

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Three Essays on Information Manipulation and Partisanship in Electoral Autocracies by …

Russian-American Relations and the Mass Media Securitization of Vladimir Putin and
Donald Trump in the American Press by Valeriia Alikina This thesis is focused on two issues …

Personalisation is a concept which is based on the idea that focus is increasingly directed at
the individual politician and his or her personal characteristics. Social media, such as …

This doctoral thesis examines the personalities of national politicians and is the first of its
kind to apply the socio-psychological model of Basic Human Values (Schwartz, 1994) to …

La extensión de las campañas electorales al ámbito virtual es un tema abordado en cada
vez más estudios que arrojan notables semejanzas y diferencias entre las experiencias …