Las elecciones generales españolas de 2008: "bipolarización antagónica" fomentada por intereses político-mediáticos y las nuevas tecnologías

The 2008 general elections in Spain reproduced the common characteristics of Western democracies: permanent campaigning, negativism and personalizing. Throughout the entire campaign, mainstream mass media employed a strategy of bi-partisan polarization that was encouraged by both social democrats and conservatives, resulting in a loss of power for small nationalist and leftist parties. Candidates' debates began to be televised again after a 15 year hiatus, but the moderating role of journalists was abolished by the two major political parties which instead made prior agreement regarding the to...