Tag: Government & crisis
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Win power, lose the likes: what governing did to European parties on Facebook
Ten years of Facebook data from 16 European countries suggest that governing costs parties attention: posts drew less once a party was in government, and leaving office did not bring it back.
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Did Europe rally round its leaders on Facebook in the first Covid-19 wave?
When lockdowns began across Europe in 2020, governing parties and heads of government drew more attention on Facebook, but so did the opposition. A new paper using 81,372 posts from 147 pages finds a real but modest and short-lived rally.
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Spain’s governing parties were the quietest on Facebook
In Spain, the parties that led the country’s governments drew a fraction of their vote on Facebook, while the challengers drew two to three times theirs. A new paper uses my doctoral CrowdTangle data to look at leaders, party pages and elections from 2015 to 2020.
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A pause in the mockery: what Covid did to British political Facebook
In Britain’s first Covid wave, government pages went from 5% to 29% of the engagement on political Facebook, and the usual laughing at the government’s own page stopped for two months. It came back with “stay alert”, before Cummings.
