Articles by Andrea Ceron

May 10, 2024

🔮 Why Italian political parties use populist rhetoric on social media

Andrea Ceron
Analysing posts on Facebook and Twitter-X, Andrea Ceron, Silvia Decadri, and Fedra Negri highlight how Italian politicians use populist rhetoric to generate engagement. They find that such rhetoric does indeed increase the likelihood of posts going viral, even among non-populist voters
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March 25, 2022

Don’t sweep it under the carpet! How parties react to defections

Andrea Ceron
Andrea Ceron and Elisa Volpi argue that rather than sweeping the damage under the carpet, parties can best restore their image by emphasising competence, clarity and their ability to handle the core issues
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Andrea Ceron
Full Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan

Andrea is Principal Investigator of the Italian Ministry for University and Research (PRIN) project DEMOPE: Democracy under Pressure, and co-founder of the Party Congress Research Group.

His research interests include intra-party politics, party competition, electoral campaigns, judicial politics, media bias and social media analysis.

@AndreaCeron83

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