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The Impact of Economic Crises on Political Representation in Public Communication: Evidence from the Eurozone

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External threats such as war have been shown to disrupt representation as politicians ‘put politics aside’ and cooperate across cleavages. This article examines whether a severe economic crisis can have a similar effect. It introduces a new approach that provides a spatial representation of how political parties represent societal actors in their public interactions, based on more than 140,000 machine coded news events from eleven eurozone countries between 2001 and 2011. The study shows that in bad economic times, there is a compression of political representation: parties’ relationships with the societal groups they are closest to become less cooperative, while their relationships with the groups they are least close to become less conflictual.

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  • Weschle, Simon, 2019. "The Impact of Economic Crises on Political Representation in Public Communication: Evidence from the Eurozone," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 49(3), pages 1097-1116, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:49:y:2019:i:03:p:1097-1116_00
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    1. James Adams & Simon Weschle & Christopher Wlezien, 2021. "Elite Interactions and Voters’ Perceptions of Parties’ Policy Positions," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(1), pages 101-114, January.
    2. Tobias Arnold & Sean Mueller & Adrian Vatter, 2021. "Shock or Design: What Drives Fiscal De/Centralization? A Comparative Analysis of Twenty-Nine OECD Countries, 1995–2017," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 51(1), pages 1-26.

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