Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy: Challenging by Prof Kees Brants, Prof Brants Kees, Dr Voltmer Katrin

By Prof Kees Brants, Prof Brants Kees, Dr Voltmer Katrin

This edited assortment examines the altering faces of political verbal exchange in modern democracy. in line with comparative investigations of contemporary traits within the Netherlands and nice Britain, the essays supply clean insights and new empirical facts into the general public illustration of media-centred politics.

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Kees Brants and Katrin Voltmer 13 However, it is only in the Netherlands that populist leaders with a strong anti-immigration agenda have gained wide-spread popular support (see Van Praag & Adriaansen in this volume). This is not to say that the British press, in particular its tabloid papers, have not adopted populist rhetoric: on the contrary. But it seems that so far the political elites in Britain have largely resisted the populist temptation, and that the majoritarian voting system has proven an effective bulwark against the rise of populist parties.

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