scholarly journals Mediated emotions: shame and pride in Polish right-wing media coverage of the 2019 European Parliament elections

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Rūta Kazlauskaitė ◽  
Mikko Salmela
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
European Parliament Elections

scholarly journals ‘This time I’m (not) voting’: A comprehensive overview of campaign factors influencing turnout at European Parliament elections

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 680-705
Author(s):  
Franziska Marquart ◽  
Andreas C Goldberg ◽  
Claes H de Vreese
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Political Advertisements ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Online Forms ◽  
European Parliament Elections

Research has investigated numerous factors influencing turnout for European Parliament elections but paid insufficient attention to the role of campaign influences. Using survey data collected in the context of the 2019 European Parliament elections, we assess citizens’ passive exposure to media coverage and political advertisements, active forms of engagement such as visiting a party’s website and interpersonal communication on- and offline. We test to which extent these activities contribute to the likelihood that citizens vote. Our study highlights the importance of information factors beyond well-established turnout determinants. The results confirm the mobilizing influence of a number of variables, but we also find consistent negative effects of online forms of communication and engagement. We discuss these findings with regard to a potentially ‘toxic’ online information environment.

scholarly journals The Czech Pirate Party in the 2010 and 2013 Parliamentary Elections and the 2014 European Parliament Elections: Spatial Analysis of Voter Support

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Maškarinec
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Spatial Regression ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
College Educated

Abstract The paper presents a spatial analysis of the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) voter support in the 2010 and 2013 parliamentary elections and the 2014 European Parliament elections. The main method applied for classifying electoral results was the spatial autocorrelation and spatial regression. The result of the analysis has shown that territorial support for the Pirates copies to a great extent the areas of high support for right-wing parties and simultaneously the areas exemplified by a high development potential. In the case of spatial characteristics, little support for the Pirates was shown in Moravia and higher in the Sudetenland in terms of determinants of support. Additionally to spatial regimes, inter-regional support for the Pirates was also influenced by other non-spatial characteristics, although the strength of their influence was relatively weak. The units which embodied a successful environment for voting for the Pirates were particularly characterized by greater urbanization and a greater number of entrepreneurs, while a lack of jobs and the older age structure, i.e. the signs that in the socio-economic, or socio-ecological sense define peripheral areas, negatively impacted the gains of the Pirates. Ambiguous influence was exercised by college-educated inhabitants, who in the parliamentary elections in 2010 and 2013 decreased the gains of the Pirates, however, in the elections to the European Parliament in 2014 a direction of relationship was modified and turned positive.

Discursive (re)construction of populist sovereignism by right-wing hard Eurosceptic parties in the 2019 European parliament elections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Brusenbauch Meislova ◽  
Steve Buckledee
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
People's Party ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
Analytical Tools

Abstract The overarching aim of the article is to investigate the discourse of populist sovereignism as articulated by the leaders and/or leading candidates of four right-wing hard Eurosceptic populist parties in the following countries during the 2019 elections to the European Parliament: the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. The political parties investigated are Freedom and Direct Democracy, League, People’s Party Our Slovakia and Brexit Party. Using the analytical tools of Critical Discourse Analysis and drawing on the concept of populist sovereignism, the study investigates how right-wing Eurosceptic populist sovereignism was discursively (re)constructed by right-wing hard Eurosceptic parties during the 2019 EP elections across the four cases. As such, the inquiry brings fresh insights as it looks at right-wing populist discourse through the sovereignism perspective, thus complementing the literature on populist mobilization that focuses on grasping the linkage between populism and sovereignism.

scholarly journals The Finns Party: Euroscepticism, Euro Crisis, Populism and the Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha Herkman
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Euro Crisis ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
Economic Elites ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Minor ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
The Relationship

In many European countries, populist right-wing parties have been most noticeable representatives of Euroscepticism. In Finland, the Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset) has been a constant promoter of organisational Euroscepticism through its leader, Timo Soini. The party broke through in Finland’s ‘big bang elections’ of 2011, when the most debated issue was the European economic crisis, which was dominated by Eurosceptic Soini. Research concerning the relationship between the media, populism and Euroscepticism usually focus on national or European Parliament elections. This study analyses the media portrayal of the Eurosceptic Finns Party during times other than elections, focusing on the Finland’s overall Euro crisis press coverage in 2010–2012. The analysis shows that the populist Finns Party has been a minor player in that coverage, which was dominated by the Euro positive political and economic elites. Differences between newspapers indicate that journalistic routines and political context direct media coverage toward particular framings, even when the media proclaims itself politically independent and neutral.

scholarly journals Communicating Political Positions on European Issues: A Comparison of Parties and Newspapers in Seven Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 147892992095200
Author(s):  
Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann ◽  
Beatrice Eugster
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
National Quality ◽  
European Parliament Elections

This article starts from the observation that most voters know relatively little about positions and plans of political parties, especially when European Union politics is concerned. One reason for this could be that the main sources for political information, party communication and mass media coverage, provide voters only little concrete information about positions and plans of political parties. We ask how concretely, respectively vaguely, political parties and mass media communicate political positions prior to the 2014 European Parliament elections. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of all European Union–related press releases from 46 national political parties and of all European Union–related articles of 14 national quality newspapers from 7 European countries 12 weeks before the 2014 European Parliament elections. Our analysis shows that press releases as well as media coverage contain more concrete political positions on European Union issues than vague political statements. Other than expected, newspaper coverage provided the public with less concrete information than political actors did. Nevertheless, countries vary with regard to the extent to which party communication or newspaper coverage contain vague statements. We cannot find empirical support that the communication of concrete political positions depends on a party’s “extremity” of issue position or on the type of issue.

Die Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament 2019: drei Ursachen für die Transformation im europäischen Parteiensystem

IG ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Kohls ◽  
Manuel Müller
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Catalytic Effect ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
European Parliament Elections

The results of the European Parliament elections 2019 are a reflection of a longer-term transformation in the European party system, whereby (left-)liberal and right-wing forces are gaining votes at the expense of traditional centre-left and centre-right catch-all parties. This contribution highlights three societal reasons for this transformation: a new cleavage between inclusion and exclusion which gains importance with respect to the left-right cleavage, changes in the structure of public communication, and the catalytic effect of the European crises of the last years.

scholarly journals Cross Road Elections: Change in EU Performance Evaluations during the European Parliament Elections 2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claes De Vreese ◽  
Rachid Azrout ◽  
Judith Moeller
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Media Content ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Multiple Wave ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
The Eu

The 2014 European Parliament (EP) elections were held after a period where public opinion about the EU changed significantly. In this paper we investigate evaluations of the performance of the European Union, as this dimension of EU attitudes is particularly relevant ahead of elections. We look at public opinion developments since 2009 and then zoom in on the role played by the news media in shaping public opinion about EU performance by linking citizens’ evaluations across time to the news media content they were exposed to. The article relies on original multiple wave survey panel data and a systematic media content analysis in the Netherlands. It shows how public opinion has changed, how it changes around EP elections, and how exposure to media coverage can help improve citizens’ evaluations of EU performance.

scholarly journals Euroscepticism between Populism and Technocracy: The Case of Italian Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Zappettini ◽  
Marzia Maccaferri
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
European Project ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
European Public ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
Government Coalition

This paper analyses the digital communication of Italian parties Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle during their campaigns for the European Parliament elections (January-May 2019). We focus on the Italian case as it is representative of a generalised shift in European public discourse towards an overt delegitimation of the European project and its re-imagination. In the Italian case, Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle, which were in a Government coalition for fourteen months, have been instrumental in Italy’s shift from a strong Europhile country to one of the most Eurosceptic. However, while Lega has definitely aligned itself with a strong right-wing populist agenda, Movimento 5 Stelle has promoted a populist technocratic vision of democracy. Our analysis shows that the articulation of Eurosceptic discourses from both parties by and large reflects the two stances above with Lega’s messages (primarily produced by its leader Matteo Salvini) characterised by a ‘hyperled’ style of communication and stronger nativist elements (for example the appeal to an ethno-centric and ‘sovereign’ idea of Italy) than those of Movimento 5 Stelle, which instead relied on a ‘horizontal’ communicative style. However, our data also shows that the delegitimation of Europe in both parties occur along a similar domestication of European affairs into the national political agenda and the call for a reformed Europe along nationalistic logics which both parties claimed to champion.

scholarly journals A Vision of the European Union: A Study of Media Coverage of Polish Election Campaigns for the 2019 European Parliament Elections

Politologija ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Stasiak-Jazukiewicz ◽  
Marta Jas-Koziarkiewicz ◽  
Renata Mienkowska - Norkiene
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Research Question ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Research Model ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
European Parliament Elections

The 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections coincided with the discussions about the need to change the European integration model. These discussions were forced by the refugee crisis and Brexit. In this article, the authors investigate the media representation of programs proposed by Polish political parties in the campaign for EP 2019 elections. The purpose is to determine how the media reported on these programs (media agenda). The research question required the supplementation of the study with an analysis of the political parties’ programs. The research model is based on an agenda-setting theory. The empirical section presents the results of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of both media and political agendas, confirming the discrepancy between them.

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