Margit van Wessel

Nijmegen Area, Netherlands Netherlands

Assistant professor at Wageningen University & Research

Education

Margit van Wessel investigates communication looking into the societal complexities shaping communication between citizens and formal political and governmental institutions on matters of policy and politics. In many present day democracies, questions are raised about the nature and limits of citizen engagement and agency with regard to the challenges facing them and society at large. We know institutions such as political parties, churches, unions, national representative governments and even television do not have the political role they had in earlier decades. At the same time, we also know many citizens, while ‘unorganized’, are opinionated and demand more influence for citizens on po...