Abstract
In chapter 1, we already provided some information about the Dutch political system and the roles that social media play in Dutch politics. In this chapter, we will present a more complete picture of Dutch politics and of the way social media found their way into it. Aside from sketching out the Netherlands’ political system, this chapter also serves as a descriptive case study of social media and its use in general in Dutch politics. In short, this chapter will study the country level, whereas the later chapters focus on the party level (chapter 4), the candidate level (chapter 5), and the local and supranational level (chapter 6).
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© 2016 Kristof Tom Erik Jacobs and Cornelis Hubertus Bernardus Maria Spierings
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Jacobs, K., Spierings, N. (2016). Social Media in Politics: The Netherlands from a Comparative Perspective. In: Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137533906_3
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