Tag: Populism & radical parties
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Do populists win on Facebook? Ten years of party pages across Europe
I looked at 669,760 posts from party pages in 17 European countries. Populist parties got about two and a half times the engagement of comparable parties, but mostly because they built bigger audiences, and not in every country.
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What went viral on Britain First’s Facebook page? A new paper from my PhD archive
Facebook deleted Britain First’s page in March 2018. I hold a post-level record of it, extracted two days before the ban. A new paper uses it to show what the page’s audience rewarded and what it ignored.
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Personality Crisis? Did the “personalisation of politics” lead to UKIP’s rise?
In the May 2014 European elections, Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party (UKIP from hereon) polled in first place, with 26.6 per cent of the national vote. Despite UKIP’s now ostensible popularity, they are academically under analysed as a political movement. This literature review will examine where I believe there is a major gap…
