Different Standards: Observing Variation in Citizens' Respect-Based Norms for Mediated Political Communication.

ABSTRACT: Incivility, oversimplification, lying, inaccessible language: there is widespread concern and controversy about the disrespectful ways politicians communicate. The reasoning underlying these worries is that such communication violates widely shared communicative norms, and that exposure to it may lead to adverse consequences in the wider public. However, widespread support for respect-based norms among citizens is generally presupposed, and little is known about the extent to which norm support matters in how people react when witnessing disrespectful politicians. Using Belgian survey data (N = 2,030), we investigate whether citizens differ in the degree to which they support different respect-based norms for mediated elite communication, and whether differing levels of norm support modera

SUBMITTER: Turkenburg E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12166978 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature