Fake news, emotions and simple language: party rhetoric in populist times and its effects on policy opinion constraint

• In Event: Information and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

In this paper, we study the consistency of voters’ policy opinions and whether it is affected by specific features of parties’ discourse. Analyses focus on the 2019 European elections, merging party-level and voter-level data.

Authors

• Marta Gallina, University of Lille

• Stefano Camatarri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona