Linda Bos

TL;DR: This study argues that populist messages are characterized by assigning blame to elites in an emotionalized way, and shows that emotionalized blame attributions influence both blame perceptions and populist attitudes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the media coverage of two Dutch right-wing populist leaders with the coverage of leaders of established parties, in a real-life setting, by tracking campaign developments in the Dutch 2006 national election campaign, and found significant effects of the content of media coverage on the public image of political leaders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the conditionality of the effects of these two communication strategies on the perceived legitimacy of one right-wing populist and one mainstream leader and use an experimental setup with a large-N representative sample of Dutch voters (n=3125).

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that positive and negative emotions mediate framing effects about immigration, and whether mediation depends on the type of frame at stake, such as emancipation, multicultural, assimilation, or victimization.

TL;DR: In this paper, a longitudinal content analysis of newspapers, television news, talk shows and party political broadcasts, covering seven elections in nearly 20 years, is presented, with no clear trend but a downward one in 2012.