Political hibernation in‐between elections? Exploring the online communication and mobilisation capacities of Nigeria's political parties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Temitayo Isaac Odeyemi ◽  
Gideon Uchechukwu Igwebueze ◽  
Omomayowa Olawale Abati ◽  
Adeola Opeyemi Ogundotun
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Online Communication

Political Parties and Diaspora: A Case Study of Romanian Parties’ Involvement Abroad

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-917
Author(s):  
Gabriela Borz
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
New Parties ◽  
Policy Strategy ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Gradual Approach ◽  
The Impact

Abstract How do parties organise for success in engaging with their diaspora? This study investigates the impact Romanian diaspora has had on national political parties. It develops an argument based on diaspora recognition, engagement and policy as implemented by old and new parties. The analysis shows that recognition of diaspora in party statutes is not a guarantee for engagement. The latter increases with the use of new online communication strategies, provided there is a demand for such communication platforms. New parties with a strong anti-corruption stance mobilise diaspora online. The policy strategy emphasises diaspora support rather than diaspora return as incumbent parties take a gradual approach based on rights and identity promotion, which increases the economic utility of the engagement. The results are based on the analysis of party statutes, governmental documents, party online communication strategies and interviews with party members.

scholarly journals Comparing automated content analysis methods to distinguish issue communication by political parties on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Stiene Praet ◽  
Peter Van Aelst ◽  
Walter Daelemans ◽  
Tim Kreutz ◽  
Jeroen Peeters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Party Discipline ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Automated Content Analysis ◽  
Approaches To Study ◽  
Issue Competition

Abstract Party competition in Western Europe is increasingly focused on “issue competition”, which is the selective emphasis on issues by parties. The aim of this paper is to contribute methodologically to the increasing number of studies that deal with different aspects of parties’ issue competition and communication. We systematically compare the value and shortcomings of three exploratory text representation approaches to study the issue communication of parties on Twitter. More specifically, we analyze which issues separate the online communication of one party from that of the other parties and how consistent party communication is. Our analysis was performed on two years of Twitter data from six Belgian political parties, comprising of over 56,000 political tweets. The results indicate that our exploratory approach is useful to study how political parties profile themselves on Twitter and which strategies are at play. Second, our method allows to analyze communication of individual politicians which contributes to classical literature on party unity and party discipline. A comparison of our three methods shows a clear trade-off between interpretability and discriminative power, where a combination of all three simultaneously provides the best insights.

Dynamics of American Political Parties

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Brewer ◽  
Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties

Political Parties in Africa

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Elischer
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties

Election Poster Persuasion

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Schott ◽  
Jule Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Additional Measure ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Policy Statements ◽  
Voting Intentions

Abstract. We examined the effect of presenting unknown policy statements on German parties’ election posters. Study 1 showed that participants inferred the quality of a presented policy from knowledge about the respective political party. Study 2 showed that participants’ own political preferences influenced valence estimates: policy statements presented on campaign posters of liked political parties were rated significantly more positive than those presented on posters of disliked political parties. Study 3 replicated the findings of Study 2 with an additional measure of participants’ need for cognition. Need for cognition scores were unrelated to the valence transfer from political parties to policy evaluation. Study 4 replicated the findings of Studies 2 and 3 with an additional measure of participants’ voting intentions. Voting intentions were a significant predictor for valence transfer. Participants credited both their individually liked and disliked political parties for supporting the two unknown policies. However, the credit attributed to the liked party was significantly higher than to the disliked one. Study 5 replicated the findings of Studies 2, 3, and 4. Additionally, participants evaluated political clubs that were associated with the same policies previously presented on election posters. Here, a second-degree transfer emerged: from party valence to policy evaluation and from policy evaluation to club evaluation. Implications of the presented studies for policy communications and election campaigning are discussed.

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