Comparing Online and Offline Political Support

Laurence Brandenberger; Giona Casiraghi; Georges Andres; Simon Schweighofer; Frank Schweitzer

doi:10.1111/spsr.12524

Comparing Online and Offline Political Support

Laurence Brandenberger^*, Giona Casiraghi, Georges Andres, Simon Schweighofer, Frank Schweitzer

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Department of Media and Communication

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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Abstract

Do politicians carry on their interpersonal relations online? We examine how online political support compares to offline support. We overlay two data sets on political support among members of the Swiss National Council to estimate the explanatory power of online endorsements on offline cosponsorship signatures among members, using a gHypEG network regression model. Whereas offline support behavior is driven by a broad range of factors, such as network and homophily effects, endorsement is less diverse. Our findings show that online endorsement is predominantly driven by partisanship and does not mirror the richness found in offline support behavior.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	604-623
Number of pages	20
Journal	Swiss Political Science Review
Volume	28
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12524
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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cosponsorship
legislative networks
legislative politics
online and offline behavior
political support

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