Do radical-right parties render political debate more negative?Recent studies indicate they might. But Tobias Widmann and Vicente Valentim show this is not true in Germany, where political discourse among mainstream parties becomes more positive when confronted with rhetoric from radical-right challengers
PhD candidate in Political Science, European University Institute
Tobias researches political behaviour, political communication, and political psychology.
His work focuses on the rhetoric of political parties and on factors that determine the use of emotional language. To trace these emotional appeals, he employs a variety of computational text analysis tools.
