About

Emma Turkenburg is a doctoral student at KU Leuven’s Democratic Innovations & Legitimacy Research Group. The starting point for her research is the current widespread concern about problematic political communication, such as misinformation and disrespect. Emma examines both the communicative and linguistic characteristics of electoral debates, as well as their language effects. Key concepts of her work include argumentation, legitimacy and polarization. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8332-7820

Research Interests

Cleavages, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, Elections, Political Methodology, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Psychology, Populism, Political Sociology, Broadcast, Campaign, Candidate, Methods, Communication, Electoral Behaviour, Political Ideology, Empirical

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Democratic Innovations
• Political Communication
• Political Methodology
• Political Psychology
• Elites and Political Leadership
• Affective Polarization
• Extremism and Democracy
• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective
• Identity
• Political Parties
• Citizenship