Political Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Communication is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media53
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship53
A Little More Conversation A Little Less Prejudice: The Role of Classroom Political Discussions for Youth’s Attitudes toward Immigrants48
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention43
Propaganda during Economic Crises: Reference Point Adjustment in Economic News43
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?41
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter35
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora35
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina33
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research32
Successfully Overcoming the “Double Bind”? A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Self-Presentation of Female Right-wing Populists on Instagram and the Impact on Voter Attitudes29
Correction26
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition24
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals23
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis22
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility21
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia19
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks19
Rhetorical Promises: Gender Diversity Among Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representation on Twitter19
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns18
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study18
Effects of Over-Time Exposure to Partisan Media and Coverage of Polarization on Perceived Polarization17
Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates17
State as Salesman: International Economic Engagement and Foreign News Coverage in China16
Moralization of Rationality Can Stimulate Sharing of Hostile and False News on Social Media, but Intellectual Humility Inhibits it16
The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians15
Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries15
Rooted in White Identity Politics: Tracing the Genealogy of Critical Race Theory Discourse in Identity-Based Disinformation14
Migrating a Flock of Outsiders: Platform Affordances and Political Goals in the Chilean Constitutional Reform14
Linguistic Choices as Political Participation: The Political Voice of Ukrainian Refugee and Migrant Mothers13
Editor’s Note Jan 202513
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election13
U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes13
Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries13
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda12
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives12
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–202012
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies12
Do They Even Care? Empirical Evidence for the Importance of Listening in Democracy12
Vladimir Putin on Channel One, 2000–202211
The Political Court: Newspaper Coverage, Appointment Politics, and Public Support of the United States Supreme Court, 1980–202311
Forum Editor’s Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Political Ad Libraries, and Transgender Health Misinformation11
Negotiating News: How Cross-Cutting Romantic Partners Select, Consume, and Discuss News Together10
Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions10
“The People” Imagined , Felt , and Experienced by Populist Supporters: A Cross-National and Cross-Ideologic10
Editors’ Introduction: Global Crises, Contentious Politics and Social Media10
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries10
Correction9
Watching a Show versus Being There: Embodied Gatekeeping and Visual Perspective in Congress9
What Did We Learn About Political Communication from the Meta2020 Partnership?9
Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election9
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism9
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction9
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