| Autor: |
Kefford, Glenn, Dommett, Katharine, Baldwin-Philippi, Jessica, Bannerman, Sara, Dobber, Tom, Kruschinski, Simon, Kruikemeier, Sanne, Rzepecki, Erica |
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Party Politics; May2023, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p448-462, 15p |
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Data-driven campaigning has become one of the key foci for academic and non-academic audiences interested in political communication. Widely seen to have transformed political practice, it is often argued that data-driven campaigning is a force of significant democratic disruption because it contributes to a fragmentation of political discourse, undermines prevailing systems of electoral accountability and subverts 'free' and 'fair' elections. In this article, we present one of the very first cross-national analyses of data-driven campaigning by political parties. Drawing on empirical research conducted by experts in six advanced democracies, we show that the data-driven campaign practices seen to threaten democracy are often not manifest in party campaigns. Instead, we see a set of practices that build on pre-existing techniques and which are far less sophisticated than is often assumed. Indeed, we present evidence that most political parties lack the capacity to execute the hyper-intensive practices often associated with data-driven campaigning. Hence, while there is reason to remain alert to the challenges data-driven campaigning produces for democratic norms, we argue that this practice is not inherently disruptive, but rather exemplifies the evolving nature of political campaigning in the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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