A new paper by Claes H. de Vreese, a professor of political communication at The Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam, discusses populist movements and the media’s role in them.
With the final stretch of the 2012 presidential election now here, some central research-oriented questions that are traditionally asked about campaigns are coming to the fore. These areas include: the state of the economy and its effects on electoral outcomes; the role of money and the power of ads; the impact of the candidate debates; the effectiveness of the campaigns’ “ground games”; and the potential for “coattail” effects down the ballot.
With the first presidential primary debate scheduled for August 6, attention to Election 2016 is set to heat up in a substantial way.
From the Scholars Strategy Network, written by Daniel Kreiss, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
