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| Sharing is caring! Investigating viral posts on politicians’ Facebook pages during the 2014 general election campaign in Hungary M Bene Social Media Campaigning in Europe, 95-110, 2020 | 63 | 2020 |
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| Who reaps the benefits? A cross-country investigation of the absolute and relative normalization and equalization theses in the 2019 European Parliament elections M Bene New media & society 25 (7), 1708-1727, 2023 | 31 | 2023 |
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| Virális politika: Politikai kommunikáció a Facebookon= Viral Politics: Political Communication on Facebook MÁ Bene Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
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| Media visibility and inclusion of radical right populism in Hungary and Romania: A discursive opportunity approach G Szabó, OC Norocel, M Bene Problems of post-communism 66 (1), 33-46, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Hungary: Crisis as usual—populist governance and the pandemic M Bene, Z Boda Populism and the Politicization of the COVID-19 Crisis in Europe, 87-100, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
| Mainstream or an alternate universe? Locating and analysing the radical right media products in the Hungarian media network G Szabó, M Bene Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics 1 (1), 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
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| Hungary: Illiberal crisis management 1 N Merkovity, M Bene, X Farkas Political Communication and COVID-19, 269-279, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| Patterns of negative campaigning during the 2019 European election: Political parties’ Facebook posts and users’ sharing behaviour across twelve countries P Baranowski, S Kruschinski, U Russmann, J Haßler, M Magin, B Márton, ... Journal of Information Technology & Politics 20 (4), 375-392, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
| Does context matter? A cross-country investigation of the effects of the media context on external and internal political efficacy M Bene International Journal of Comparative Sociology 61 (4), 264-286, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Integration or isolation? Mapping out the position of radical right media in the public sphere OC Norocel, G Szabó, M Bene International Journal of Communication 11, 25, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
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