Italy was the first Western democracy to experience mass lockdown in response to COVID-19. In the early stages of the pandemic, citizens’ trust in the government increased and journalists “indexed”…
This paper provides empirical evidence about varying levels of trust in anti-Covid vaccines amongst Italian citizens. We problematize the issue of trust at the crossroads between three strands of literature.…
Public opinion polarization on immigration can hinder social cohesion, integration policies and economic growth. Political campaigns and partisan news media systems have long been investigated in terms of potential drivers…
SISP Conference 2021 (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica) 09-11/09/2021 Online Conference Section 5 - Political Communication (Panel 5.10 Covid-19. La comunicazione di una pandemia) Presentation: Who's afraid of the COVID…
In this paper, we discuss implications that the lockdown experience had on goals, methodological approaches, and topics of interest of a longitudinal study that we are conducting on political opinion…
We were about to go to the field with our research, the date was set for May 2020. We had been working on the questionnaire for months. On 8 March…
Democracias frágiles: polarización, populismo y desinformación en un contexto mediático híbrido 11-13/11/2020 Menéndez Pelayo International University - Valencia Presentation: Media fragmentation and mass polarization in the hybrid media system at…