Philip Van Praag
Biographic Data
| ID | 3879068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Van Praag |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Praag |
| SIGNATURE | VAN PRAAG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 314 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Beyond Media Logic
Mediatization and media logic are concepts that enjoy a growing academic popularity. At the same time, the phenomena that they cover and the empirical proof of their existence and growing presence are at best ambiguous. This article firstly dissects and problematizes these concepts and, secondly,it discusses the likelihood of other logics, notably ones in which the vox populi has a more central, albeit contested, place. The conclusion is that, as…
When the Stakes Are High
This article examines the conditions under which different kinds of parties resort to negative campaigning in three Western European countries: the Netherlands, Britain, and Germany in the period between 1980 and 2006. Data were collected for 27 parties, participating in 23 elections, yielding a total of 129 cases. The study uses a cross-nested multilevel model to estimate the effects of party characteristics as well as the electoral context in w…
Substance Matters
This article compares the impact of strategic and substantive news on political cynicism among younger people (18- to 34-year-olds) as compared to non-young citizens. While studies on the unfavorable impact of strategic news have yielded mixed results, the possible favorable impact of substantive news has not been studied extensively. This article draws on a national voter-panel survey (N = 703) conducted before the 2006 Dutch elections, together…
The Real Spiral of Cynicism? Symbiosis and Mistrust between Politicians and Journalists
The relationship among media, politicians, and the public has been studied a lot, especially how the media’s portrayal of politics affects people’s (cynical) attitudes. Scholars know little about the antecedent of this assumed spiral of cynicism: How cynical are politicians and journalists about each other and about politics? Based on a survey among Dutch politicians and political journalists, the research presented in this article tries to fill …
The Fourth Estate as Superpower
The power of the media has long been at the centre of communication studies, mostly focusing on the effects they have on the public. Power over politics is far less studied, however many politicians complain about such media power after a lost election or when observing political cynicism among the public. In this paper, the results of a survey on politicians and journalists in Belgium and the Netherlands are presented, showing the perceptions of…
Erosion of Political Trust in the Netherlands
Signs of Media Logic Half a Century of Political Communication in the Netherlands
On the basis of three elections, covering a period of fifty years, the authors aim at testing the increasingly popular hypothesis that political communication is driven by media logic and by political and media system characteristics. In short: sooner or later, the modes and styles of American media will appear in Europe too.The complex and volatile relationship between media and politics in the Netherlands in the last half century does show some…
The Dynamics of Opinion Formation in Local Popular Referendums
There is growing research on voting behavior in referendums. However, the dynamics of opinion formation in popular referendums, referendums initiated by the electorate to approve or reject decisions made by representative bodies, has not yet been studied. This is especially unfortunate as voting decisions in popular referendums differ from those in other referendums in interesting ways. Opinion formation can be a very dynamic process in popular r…
The Winners and Losers in a Turbulent Political Year
News Content and Effects in an Historic Campaign
In the 1994 national election, parties and politicians in the Netherlands were, for the first time, confronted with a dual broadcasting system. Alongside the public service broadcasting channels, which by law and tradition had functioned as a politically balanced platform for political communication, a new commercial network had joined the broadcasting landscape. The commercial newscast, covering its first campaign, was expected to adopt a pragma…
News Content and Effects in an Historic Campaign
In the 1994 national election, parties and politicians in the Netherlands were, for the first time, confronted with a dual broadcasting system. Alongside the public service broadcasting channels, which by law and tradition had functioned as a politically balanced platform for political communication, a new commercial network had joined the broadcasting landscape. The commercial newscast, covering its first campaign, was expected to adopt a pragma…
Electoral competition in a segmented society
This paper deals with the question of how political parties define their electoral strategies in a multiparty system within a segmented society. In trying to answer this question various concepts as developed by Sani and Sartori are discussed, especially the distinction they make between ‘expansive’and ‘defensive’strategies and the exclusion from their analysis of so‐called ‘non‐relevant’parties. A brief study of electoral strategies of the Dutch…
Old and new politics
On the basis of data on the Dutch peace movement, we study the relationship between traditional organizations of political intermediation such as parties, unions and churches with a new social movement on the local level. After having argued for the relevance of the institutional context, the general structure of new social movements and the particular structure of the movement under consideration with regard to this relationship, we first presen…
Aspects économiques à long terme des migrations internationales dans les pays de la C.E.E
Un populationniste hollandais
L'étude des doctrines de population est trop souvent limitée à celle des auteurs classiques anglais et français ou parfois italiens et espagnols. ? est pourquoi, à plusieurs reprises, l'Institut national d'Études démographiques a fait paraître des articles ou des cahiers propres à enrichir la documentation et les connaissances sur un sujet aussi digne d'attention. M. Ph. Van Praag, membre de la division de l'emploi à la Communauté économique euro…
Signs of Media Logic Half a Century of Political Communication in the Netherlands
On the basis of three elections, covering a period of fifty years, the authors aim at testing the increasingly popular hypothesis that political communication is driven by media logic and by political and media system characteristics. In short: sooner or later, the modes and styles of American media will appear in Europe too.The complex and volatile relationship between media and politics in the Netherlands in the last half century does show some…
The Real Spiral of Cynicism? Symbiosis and Mistrust between Politicians and Journalists
The relationship among media, politicians, and the public has been studied a lot, especially how the media’s portrayal of politics affects people’s (cynical) attitudes. Scholars know little about the antecedent of this assumed spiral of cynicism: How cynical are politicians and journalists about each other and about politics? Based on a survey among Dutch politicians and political journalists, the research presented in this article tries to fill …
When the Stakes Are High
This article examines the conditions under which different kinds of parties resort to negative campaigning in three Western European countries: the Netherlands, Britain, and Germany in the period between 1980 and 2006. Data were collected for 27 parties, participating in 23 elections, yielding a total of 129 cases. The study uses a cross-nested multilevel model to estimate the effects of party characteristics as well as the electoral context in w…
The Fourth Estate as Superpower
The power of the media has long been at the centre of communication studies, mostly focusing on the effects they have on the public. Power over politics is far less studied, however many politicians complain about such media power after a lost election or when observing political cynicism among the public. In this paper, the results of a survey on politicians and journalists in Belgium and the Netherlands are presented, showing the perceptions of…
Substance Matters
This article compares the impact of strategic and substantive news on political cynicism among younger people (18- to 34-year-olds) as compared to non-young citizens. While studies on the unfavorable impact of strategic news have yielded mixed results, the possible favorable impact of substantive news has not been studied extensively. This article draws on a national voter-panel survey (N = 703) conducted before the 2006 Dutch elections, together…
Old and new politics
On the basis of data on the Dutch peace movement, we study the relationship between traditional organizations of political intermediation such as parties, unions and churches with a new social movement on the local level. After having argued for the relevance of the institutional context, the general structure of new social movements and the particular structure of the movement under consideration with regard to this relationship, we first presen…
Erosion of Political Trust in the Netherlands
The Winners and Losers in a Turbulent Political Year
News Content and Effects in an Historic Campaign
In the 1994 national election, parties and politicians in the Netherlands were, for the first time, confronted with a dual broadcasting system. Alongside the public service broadcasting channels, which by law and tradition had functioned as a politically balanced platform for political communication, a new commercial network had joined the broadcasting landscape. The commercial newscast, covering its first campaign, was expected to adopt a pragma…
Beyond Media Logic
Mediatization and media logic are concepts that enjoy a growing academic popularity. At the same time, the phenomena that they cover and the empirical proof of their existence and growing presence are at best ambiguous. This article firstly dissects and problematizes these concepts and, secondly,it discusses the likelihood of other logics, notably ones in which the vox populi has a more central, albeit contested, place. The conclusion is that, as…
The Dynamics of Opinion Formation in Local Popular Referendums
There is growing research on voting behavior in referendums. However, the dynamics of opinion formation in popular referendums, referendums initiated by the electorate to approve or reject decisions made by representative bodies, has not yet been studied. This is especially unfortunate as voting decisions in popular referendums differ from those in other referendums in interesting ways. Opinion formation can be a very dynamic process in popular r…
Electoral competition in a segmented society
This paper deals with the question of how political parties define their electoral strategies in a multiparty system within a segmented society. In trying to answer this question various concepts as developed by Sani and Sartori are discussed, especially the distinction they make between ‘expansive’and ‘defensive’strategies and the exclusion from their analysis of so‐called ‘non‐relevant’parties. A brief study of electoral strategies of the Dutch…
Aspects économiques à long terme des migrations internationales dans les pays de la C.E.E
Un populationniste hollandais
L'étude des doctrines de population est trop souvent limitée à celle des auteurs classiques anglais et français ou parfois italiens et espagnols. ? est pourquoi, à plusieurs reprises, l'Institut national d'Études démographiques a fait paraître des articles ou des cahiers propres à enrichir la documentation et les connaissances sur un sujet aussi digne d'attention. M. Ph. Van Praag, membre de la division de l'emploi à la Communauté économique euro…
Un populationniste hollandais
L'étude des doctrines de population est trop souvent limitée à celle des auteurs classiques anglais et français ou parfois italiens et espagnols. ? est pourquoi, à plusieurs reprises, l'Institut national d'Études démographiques a fait paraître des articles ou des cahiers propres à enrichir la documentation et les connaissances sur un sujet aussi digne d'attention. M. Ph. Van Praag, membre de la division de l'emploi à la Communauté économique euro…
Aspects économiques à long terme des migrations internationales dans les pays de la C.E.E
Old and new politics
On the basis of data on the Dutch peace movement, we study the relationship between traditional organizations of political intermediation such as parties, unions and churches with a new social movement on the local level. After having argued for the relevance of the institutional context, the general structure of new social movements and the particular structure of the movement under consideration with regard to this relationship, we first presen…
Electoral competition in a segmented society
This paper deals with the question of how political parties define their electoral strategies in a multiparty system within a segmented society. In trying to answer this question various concepts as developed by Sani and Sartori are discussed, especially the distinction they make between ‘expansive’and ‘defensive’strategies and the exclusion from their analysis of so‐called ‘non‐relevant’parties. A brief study of electoral strategies of the Dutch…
News Content and Effects in an Historic Campaign
In the 1994 national election, parties and politicians in the Netherlands were, for the first time, confronted with a dual broadcasting system. Alongside the public service broadcasting channels, which by law and tradition had functioned as a politically balanced platform for political communication, a new commercial network had joined the broadcasting landscape. The commercial newscast, covering its first campaign, was expected to adopt a pragma…
News Content and Effects in an Historic Campaign
In the 1994 national election, parties and politicians in the Netherlands were, for the first time, confronted with a dual broadcasting system. Alongside the public service broadcasting channels, which by law and tradition had functioned as a politically balanced platform for political communication, a new commercial network had joined the broadcasting landscape. The commercial newscast, covering its first campaign, was expected to adopt a pragma…
The Winners and Losers in a Turbulent Political Year
The Dynamics of Opinion Formation in Local Popular Referendums
There is growing research on voting behavior in referendums. However, the dynamics of opinion formation in popular referendums, referendums initiated by the electorate to approve or reject decisions made by representative bodies, has not yet been studied. This is especially unfortunate as voting decisions in popular referendums differ from those in other referendums in interesting ways. Opinion formation can be a very dynamic process in popular r…
Signs of Media Logic Half a Century of Political Communication in the Netherlands
On the basis of three elections, covering a period of fifty years, the authors aim at testing the increasingly popular hypothesis that political communication is driven by media logic and by political and media system characteristics. In short: sooner or later, the modes and styles of American media will appear in Europe too.The complex and volatile relationship between media and politics in the Netherlands in the last half century does show some…
Erosion of Political Trust in the Netherlands
The Fourth Estate as Superpower
The power of the media has long been at the centre of communication studies, mostly focusing on the effects they have on the public. Power over politics is far less studied, however many politicians complain about such media power after a lost election or when observing political cynicism among the public. In this paper, the results of a survey on politicians and journalists in Belgium and the Netherlands are presented, showing the perceptions of…
The Real Spiral of Cynicism? Symbiosis and Mistrust between Politicians and Journalists
The relationship among media, politicians, and the public has been studied a lot, especially how the media’s portrayal of politics affects people’s (cynical) attitudes. Scholars know little about the antecedent of this assumed spiral of cynicism: How cynical are politicians and journalists about each other and about politics? Based on a survey among Dutch politicians and political journalists, the research presented in this article tries to fill …
Substance Matters
This article compares the impact of strategic and substantive news on political cynicism among younger people (18- to 34-year-olds) as compared to non-young citizens. While studies on the unfavorable impact of strategic news have yielded mixed results, the possible favorable impact of substantive news has not been studied extensively. This article draws on a national voter-panel survey (N = 703) conducted before the 2006 Dutch elections, together…
When the Stakes Are High
This article examines the conditions under which different kinds of parties resort to negative campaigning in three Western European countries: the Netherlands, Britain, and Germany in the period between 1980 and 2006. Data were collected for 27 parties, participating in 23 elections, yielding a total of 129 cases. The study uses a cross-nested multilevel model to estimate the effects of party characteristics as well as the electoral context in w…
Beyond Media Logic
Mediatization and media logic are concepts that enjoy a growing academic popularity. At the same time, the phenomena that they cover and the empirical proof of their existence and growing presence are at best ambiguous. This article firstly dissects and problematizes these concepts and, secondly,it discusses the likelihood of other logics, notably ones in which the vox populi has a more central, albeit contested, place. The conclusion is that, as…
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)