Better safe than sorry? Digital campaigning governance in Germany

Borucki, Isabelle; Kettemann, Matthias C.

doi:10.1080/01442872.2024.2311167

Policy Studies

2024

DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2024.2311167

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Better safe than sorry? Digital campaigning governance in Germany

Isabelle Borucki,

Matthias C. Kettemann

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Reaching the Voters: Parties’ Use of Google Ads in the 2021 German Federal Election

Fitzpatrick,

Von Nostitz

2024

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<p>Election campaigns during the pandemic showcased the increased use of costly digital campaigning by parties. While many studies focus on the use of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites (SNS) during elections, parties’ use of Google Ads remains widely opaque (exception Medina Serrano et al., 2020). This is surprising given the fact that parties do spend substantial amounts of their budget on Google Ads and Google reports on these spending and other details of the ads in its Transparency report (Fitzpatrick 2023). Based on the equalisation vs. normalisation thesis we identify party factors (size, age, government/opposition statutes and electoral strongholds) affecting parties use of this instrument to a different degree in their campaigns (Garcia Lupato & Meloni, 2023). This contribution intends to shed light on parties’ use of Google ads during the campaigns for the German Bundestag election 2021 relying on the official data provided via Googles Ad Library. It discusses both empirical work on the factors determine use of and conceptual work on the merit and perils of Google Ads in democratic elections and present exploratory findings of our deep dive into the archive of Google Ads.</p>

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Reaching the Voters: Parties’ Use of Google Ads in the 2021 German Federal Election

Fitzpatrick,

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2024

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Better safe than sorry? Digital campaigning governance in Germany

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Reaching the Voters: Parties’ Use of Google Ads in the 2021 German Federal Election

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