271 research outputs found
New trends or old habits?:Stability and changes in political styles in European democracies since 1960
Hardly a week goes by without reports of elected officialsâoften depicted as âpopulistsââhaving used vitriolic language and viciously attacked their opponents. In a context of ârestyling of politicsâ, the style of political actors is presented as increasingly emotional and confrontational. Some scholars have argued that these styles directly challenge the democratic functioning of our modern societies. Yet, in the absence of longitudinal studies, such claims remain trivial intuitions and anecdotes that are as old as politics. Do the styles of modern politicians constitute new trends or reflect old habits? What are the factors constraining or favouring certain styles? In the face of a form of nostalgia for good old times, I critically challenge the idea that emotive and confrontational styles are necessarily threats in contemporary democracies. Instead, I posit that the challenges that some styles posited to democracy is the fact that such styles have increasingly targeted groups, in their private traits and personal life. This change has occurred at the expense of the substance that focused on political issues and policy orientation. While âpolitics is all about conflictsâ, the real democratic threats concern âgroup conflicts without politicsâ. This contribution will present the POLSTYLE project and how it intends to make empirical, methodological and theoretical breakthroughs by analysing the evolution of political styles in four European democracies since the 1960s, studying performance of actorsâ style in distinct arenas (TV, print press, Parliamentary debates and Twitter).Hardly a week goes by without reports of elected officialsâoften depicted as âpopulistsââhaving used vitriolic language and viciously attacked their opponents. In a context of ârestyling of politicsâ, the style of political actors is presented as increasingly emotional and confrontational. Some scholars have argued that these styles directly challenge the democratic functioning of our modern societies. Yet, in the absence of longitudinal studies, such claims remain trivial intuitions and anecdotes that are as old as politics. Do the styles of modern politicians constitute new trends or reflect old habits? What are the factors constraining or favouring certain styles? In the face of a form of nostalgia for good old times, I critically challenge the idea that emotive and confrontational styles are necessarily threats in contemporary democracies. Instead, I posit that the challenges that some styles posited to democracy is the fact that such styles have increasingly targeted groups, in their private traits and personal life. This change has occurred at the expense of the substance that focused on political issues and policy orientation. While âpolitics is all about conflictsâ, the real democratic threats concern âgroup conflicts without politicsâ. This contribution will present the POLSTYLE project and how it intends to make empirical, methodological and theoretical breakthroughs by analysing the evolution of political styles in four European democracies since the 1960s, studying performance of actorsâ style in distinct arenas (TV, print press, Parliamentary debates and Twitter)
The Europeanization of the political class in the European Parliament:a cross-country and cross-temporal analysis of MEPsâ career patterns (1979-2019)
New trends or old habits?:Stability and changes in political styles in European democracies since 1960
Hardly a week goes by without reports of elected officialsâoften depicted as âpopulistsââhaving used vitriolic language and viciously attacked their opponents. In a context of ârestyling of politicsâ, the style of political actors is presented as increasingly emotional and confrontational. Some scholars have argued that these styles directly challenge the democratic functioning of our modern societies. Yet, in the absence of longitudinal studies, such claims remain trivial intuitions and anecdotes that are as old as politics. Do the styles of modern politicians constitute new trends or reflect old habits? What are the factors constraining or favouring certain styles? In the face of a form of nostalgia for good old times, I critically challenge the idea that emotive and confrontational styles are necessarily threats in contemporary democracies. Instead, I posit that the challenges that some styles posited to democracy is the fact that such styles have increasingly targeted groups, in their private traits and personal life. This change has occurred at the expense of the substance that focused on political issues and policy orientation. While âpolitics is all about conflictsâ, the real democratic threats concern âgroup conflicts without politicsâ. This contribution will present the POLSTYLE project and how it intends to make empirical, methodological and theoretical breakthroughs by analysing the evolution of political styles in four European democracies since the 1960s, studying performance of actorsâ style in distinct arenas (TV, print press, Parliamentary debates and Twitter).Hardly a week goes by without reports of elected officialsâoften depicted as âpopulistsââhaving used vitriolic language and viciously attacked their opponents. In a context of ârestyling of politicsâ, the style of political actors is presented as increasingly emotional and confrontational. Some scholars have argued that these styles directly challenge the democratic functioning of our modern societies. Yet, in the absence of longitudinal studies, such claims remain trivial intuitions and anecdotes that are as old as politics. Do the styles of modern politicians constitute new trends or reflect old habits? What are the factors constraining or favouring certain styles? In the face of a form of nostalgia for good old times, I critically challenge the idea that emotive and confrontational styles are necessarily threats in contemporary democracies. Instead, I posit that the challenges that some styles posited to democracy is the fact that such styles have increasingly targeted groups, in their private traits and personal life. This change has occurred at the expense of the substance that focused on political issues and policy orientation. While âpolitics is all about conflictsâ, the real democratic threats concern âgroup conflicts without politicsâ. This contribution will present the POLSTYLE project and how it intends to make empirical, methodological and theoretical breakthroughs by analysing the evolution of political styles in four European democracies since the 1960s, studying performance of actorsâ style in distinct arenas (TV, print press, Parliamentary debates and Twitter)
The Europeanization of the political class in the European Parliament: a cross-country and cross-temporal analysis of MEPsâ career patterns (1979-2019)
So close but still too far away from power ?:Unveiling womenâs careers in the European Parliament
The Flemish Negative Case:Explaining the Prevalence of Regionalist Demands without Request for an Independence Referendum
The Flemish Negative Case:Explaining the Prevalence of Regionalist Demands without Request for an Independence Referendum
So close but still too far away from power ?:Unveiling womenâs careers in the European Parliament
Itâs not only about the leader. Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium
The structure of intra-party competition within Belgian lists:What can real ballots tell us about the dispersion of preference voters?
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