Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support

@article{Jacobs2020ProsecutedYP,
  title={Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support},
  author={Laura Jacobs and Joost van Spanje},
  journal={Comparative European Politics},
  year={2020},
  pages={1-26}
}
Prosecuting anti-immigration party leaders for hate speech is theorized to yield electoral ramifications. We assess to what extent these trials are mediatized and whether news visibility of hate speech prosecution affects levels of anti-immigration party support. We compare four Western European countries (Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands) for which aggregate-level media and public opinion data are combined. We find that hate speech trials were highly mediatized, and dominated the… 

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