| Lutz investigates the claim of a steep increase in the way media would portray politics in terms of party leaders (and not of parties), their concrete political actions (and not their ideology, marking a shift from input- to output-legitimacy), their style (and not political substance), and their populist tone. In a quantitative content analysis, he will compare data from 1980 to the 2000s across six different countries that vary in the contexts of their political systems and media systems. |
