Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213485 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IRENE Working Paper No. 20-01
Publisher: 
University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Economic Research (IRENE), Neuchâtel
Abstract: 
This paper examines how socio-economic characteristics, changes in the technology of political communication and their interactions affect the sentiments of the electorate and favor the spread of populist ideas in Europe. Using both European-wide and national surveys we find a significant association between exposure to online political activity and diffusion of populist ideas such as Euroscepticism only among less educated and economically vulnerable individuals. We also show that it is not the use of the internet per se that matters but the specific use of social networks for political activity.
Subjects: 
Populism
Euroscepticism
Internet
Social Networks
Education
JEL: 
D72
N34
L82
L86
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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