Tag: Parties in government
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For three months in 2020, one Swiss minister outdrew the parties on Facebook
In the first Covid wave, Alain Berset’s page drew half of all interactions on eleven Swiss political pages, more than the three party pages together. By September the SVP was back on top.
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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.
