So-called “influencers” increasingly use their popularity on social media to raise their voice
to promote political topics such as climate change, human rights, or party politics. As digital …

Why do populist citizens oppose climate change? Thus far, data constraints limited the
ability to test different theoretical mechanisms against each other. We argue that populist …

This article presents a dictionary-based measurement of populist communication that
reaches citizens directly through social media in German. The studied populist messages …

With the announced end of Angela Merkel's tenure as Chancellor, the 2021 German federal
election was particularly charged. In stark contrast to the Social Democratic Party, which …

Im Mittelpunkt des Artikels stehen die Fridays for Future-Bewegung (FFF) und ihr Versuch,
Deutungshoheit über das komplexe Phänomen des Klimawandels, dessen Auswirkungen …

Audience expectations of journalism are a crucial dimension not only to understand
journalism's public legitimacy and institutional character but also its economic foundations in …

Environmental issues are an important aspect of party competition and voters' political
preferences. Yet political behaviour research often considers environmental attitudes as a …

At the general election of February 2020, Sinn Féin won a plurality of the vote in the
Republic of Ireland for the first time. The party system remained highly fragmented and, with …

Studies have highlighted differences between right-wing populism in Western and Central
Eastern Europe but suggested that discourses have been converging since the so-called …

Previous research on the voting behavior of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) in Europe
showed that LGB people favor left-wing or progressive parties (Turnbull-Dugarte 2020; …