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Who Is Connected to Whom? A Twitter-Based Network Analysis of Members of the European Parliament Elected in 2019

verfasst von : Stefan Haußner, Christoph Klika

Erschienen in: Die Europawahl 2019

Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Abstract

In this article, we aim to contribute to the literature on political communication on social media in the context of the European Union (EU). By analysing Twitter connections of the Members of European Parliament (MEPs) elected to the European Parliament (EP) in 2019, we aim to identify relational patterns of MEPs at the individual and party group level. The results of a social network analysis confirm the assumption that MEPs have stronger connections within political groups.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Gender and Descriptive Representation in the 2019–2024 European Parliament

Nächstes Kapitel Nachwort

We thank Arne Moormann for his support by collecting and updating data on the MEP’s Twitter accounts. We are furthermore grateful for valuable comments received on the first draft during the authors’ conference accompanying this edited volume. The usual disclaimer applies.

The material can be found in a GitHub-repository and is under a CC-BY-NC license. You can also find there the possibility to download: https://github.com/haosifan/network_ep19.

Due to the black-white printing of this book, the illustration of network graphs is rather complicated. You can find another version of the graph online, which is coloured in the colours of the political groups in the European Parliament: https://github.com/haosifan/network_ep19/blob/master/gfx/graph_coloured.JPG.

In contrast to some external values like age or gender of the MEP.

Martina Dlabajová is, however, deputy chairman of the influential Budgetary Control Committee.

Depending on the on-going developments regarding Brexit, the group of non-aligned MEPs is an interesting case given that connections in this groups are dense particularly within the Brexit party.

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Titel: Who Is Connected to Whom? A Twitter-Based Network Analysis of Members of the European Parliament Elected in 2019
verfasst von: Stefan Haußner
Christoph Klika
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Buch: Die Europawahl 2019
Print ISBN: 978-3-658-29276-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-29277-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29277-5_34