The Threats and Potentials of a Changing Political Information Environment (THREATPIE)

This project examines how the current changes in the political information environments in European democracies affect the conditions for a healthy democracy. This is done through a series of comparative, innovatively designed studies, including web tracking, comparative surveys, focus groups and survey-embedded experiments in 14 European countries and the US.

Research team

Project Leader:
Prof. dr. D. N. Hopmann
University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)

Principal Investigator:
Professor C.H. de Vreese
University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Principal Investigator:
Professor P. Van Aelst
Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium)

Principal Investigator:
Professor C. Schemer
Johannes Gutenberg University (Germany)

Principal Investigator:
Professor J. Stanyer
Loughborough University (UK)

Principal Investigator:
Professor A.S. Cardenal
Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)

Principal Investigator:
Professor A. Stepinska
Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland)

Principal Investigator:
Dr K. Koc-Michlska
Audencia Business School (France)