Corruption, Ideology, and Populism: The Rise of Valence Political Campaigning

by Luigi Curini

Book Overview

This book investigates the ideological conditions inducing political actors to highlight corruption issues through valence campaigns. Using case studies and comparative analyses of party programmes, legislatives speeches and social media data, the author demonstrates that the more parties and/or candidates present a similar policy programme, the more they rely on valence campaigns. In other words, as the ideologies of parties have become increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319859870
• ISBN13: 9783319859873
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"