What is the relationship between Internet usage and political trust? To answer this question,
we performed a cross-sectional analysis of Eurobarometer survey data related to 27 …

Can the diffusion of broadband internet help explain the recent success of populist parties in
Europe? Populists cultivate an anti‐elitist communication style, which, they claim, directly …

Media plays an important role in defining the quality of democracy in consolidated
democracy. Internet, in turn, can wield effects on democracy and many scholars have …

This paper provides an empirical assessment of the relationship between media exposure
and leader effects on voting through an analysis of Italy––an ideal case for the study of the …

This paper scrutinizes the effect of social media use on institutional trust in the European
Union (EU) among European citizens. Fixed-effects regression models on data from the …

Challenger parties might have an advantage online compared to mainstream parties, since
digital technologies increase their visibility at a low cost and connect them with niche …

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog
tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as well as the use of similar …

The relationship between electoral competitiveness and turnout forms the foundations of
understanding voter behaviour. The more competitive an election, the more ballots that …

An ongoing debate in political communication research tries to gauge the impact of online
media on opinion polarization. On the one hand, the “echo chamber” thesis postulates that …

This paper analyzes the impact of technological progress on individual political engagement
using longitudinal data from the British survey. The analysis suggests that regional …