Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

By Kristof Jacobs, Niels Spierings

Subjects: Internet, political aspects, Social media, Netherlands, politics and government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political participation, Politics and government, Political parties, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Communication in politics, Computer network resources, Political aspects, Comparative government

Description: "How have social media transformed politics in Western democracies? This book examines this question focusing on the power balance between and within parties in the Netherlands from a comparative perspective. Jacobs and Spierings also investigates topics such as local/European politics and the impact on women and ethnic-minorities"--