We are pleased to announce that on November 8, 2022, the Center for Positive/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy will be inviting Professor Joost van Spanje (Royal Holloway, University of London) to hold a seminar titled “When elites rein in political challengers: political, media and legal action against challenger parties in mature democracies”.
“When elites rein in political challengers: political, media and legal action against challenger parties in mature democracies”
- Speaker: Joost van Spanje (Professor at Royal Holloway University of London)
- Date and Time: Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 16:30-18:00 JST
- Venue: Waseda University, Waseda Campus, Building 3, Room 704
(Both in-person and on Zoom)
https://list-waseda-jp.zoom.us/j/93151258005?pwd=bkZnb3BuWVlEa1ZTSjJtZ09pMS9EUT09
Meeting ID: 931 5125 8005
Passcode: 123456 - Language: English
- Open to members of Waseda University and the general public. Free admission. No registration required.
Abstract
In all democracies worldwide, established elites face the emergence of political challengers every now and then. Elites have many response options: for example, they may try to isolate their new rivals, to imitate them, or to stigmatize them. How do elites react to challengers, and to what effect? In two research projects we have distinguished political, media, and legal action against far left and far right challengers. We have charted these reactions in several established democracies worldwide since World War II. In addition, experimental, non-experimental and quasi-experimental studies have focused on effects on citizens. It has turned out that some of these responses exert effects that are consistent across various research designs and methods. Particular political and media reactions result in consistent electoral effects, whereas a type of legal action leads to impact in three very different ways.
Speaker Biography
Joost van Spanje is Full Professor of Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. His London team investigates if and how the news media cover new parties, and electoral effects of such coverage in 19 countries since 1950. A team of nine is working on this project, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Before coming to London, Joost led a team in Amsterdam that studied effects of hate speech prosecution of politicians on public opinion in 21 countries since 1965. Joost’s work has been published in 44 SSCI-ranked journal articles and in 2018, his monograph “Controlling the Electoral Marketplace” was published.
At Waseda University, Joost is a JSPS International Fellow for Research in Japan. He previously conducted research at the University of Oxford, the EUI in Florence, and New York University. Invited talks he has given include lectures at Oxford, WZB Berlin, and Stanford. Joost has won various fellowships and awards as well as individual research grants adding up to awards of over €3,000,000. His media experience includes TV interviews given to Al Jazeera and France 24, and Australian, Brazilian, British, Canadian, German, Italian, and US national news media.
Organizers: Prof. Airo Hino, Faculty of Political Science and Economics ([email protected])
Sponsored by the Center for Positive/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy
