dc.contributor.author | VALENTIM, Vicente | |
dc.contributor.author | WIDMANN, Tobias | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-31T09:39:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-31T09:39:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Political behavior, 2023, Vol. 45, pp. 243-264 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0190-9320 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-6687 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70695 | |
dc.description | First published online: 24 March 2021 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Political rhetoric has important effects on the quality of democracy, but we know very little about what causes variation in the tone of the political debate. We investigate how radical-right success affects the way the remaining politicians discuss political issues. Using an original dictionary, we measure different positive and negative emotions in a newly collected dataset of speeches in German state parliaments. Taking advantage of variation in the timing of elections when radical-right politicians enter these parliaments, we find that politicians of other parties respond to radical-right success by using more positive, instead of negative, emotions. The analyses suggest that this finding may be the result of a strategy by the remaining politicians to distance themselves from radical-right discourse. Our findings highlight how radical-right success can create incentives for other politicians to enforce democratic norms that radical-right politicians breach. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Springer Transformative Agreement (2020-2024) | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Springer | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Political behavior | en |
dc.relation.isreplacedby | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71915 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ | |
dc.title | Does radical-right success make the political debate more negative? : evidence from emotional rhetoric in German state parliaments | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11109-021-09697-8 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 45 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 243 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 264 | |
dc.rights.license | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License | |