Popularisation & Personalisation

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Achterberg & Van Santen @ Omstreden Democratie Conference...

Together with project colleages Dick Houtman and Liesbet van Zoonen, Achterberg and Van Santen delivered a lecture on the Personalization of Politics in the Netherlands. More information here...

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Recently published: The personal in political television biographies
 

This article by Van Santen en Van Zoonen analyzes themes and styles of personal narratives of Dutch politicians on television. We find that general developments in the personalization of politicians are typifi ed by complex patterns of change and continuity, and that the portrait as a genre has diversified but is still mainly constituted by the politician's political and personal stories. More information here...

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About P&P
The aim of the research program is to map and explain the occurrence of popularization and personalization in the Dutch democracy since the beginning of Dutch television journalism in 1956 and to study whether and how these processes affect citizens’ political trust and opinions Read more....