Interpersonal political communication in election campaigns in a comparative perspective

Political disagreement and vote volatility: the role of familism across different European countries

“…It seems, thus, that the relationship between intimacy and influence mechanisms could be further moderated by the cultural/demographic context in which citizens are embedded. To date, few studies have focused on the cultural variations in the relationship between network and vote (for an example, see Huckfeldt et al, 2005;Eveland et al, 2015;Lup, 2016) but, to the best of our knowledge, no one has focused on the moderating effects that the national context can exert on the relation between influence mechanisms and intimacy. This paper aims at addressing and testing whether cross-national differences might affect influence mechanisms in discussion networks by comparing different countries in Europe in the light of a theory that subdivides countries in strong and weak family contexts.…”

“…This limitation raises the question concerning the stability of patterns and effects of interpersonal discussions across political and cultural settings. Few studies (e.g., Ikeda and Huckfeldt, 2001;Huckfeldt et al, 2005;Lup, 2016) have attempted to tackle the issue of whether political network characteristics present differences or similarities across national contexts. Yet, academic research has not investigated in detail these differences, in particular across European countries.…”

“…Hopmann, 2012). So far, few studies have attempted to tackle the problem comparatively (Hopmann, 2012;Hopmann et al, 2015), and even fewer have attempted to combine cultural/contextual differences, political discussion and electoral behavior (Huckfeldt et al, 2005;Ikeda and Huckfeldt, 2001;Lup, 2016). Overall, the literature focusing on contextual determinants of the differences and similarities across countries in political discussion is limited.…”