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1. Party Leaders in the Media and Voting Behavior: Priming Rather Than Learning or Projection.

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Takens, Janet, Kleinnijenhuis, Jan, Van Hoof, Anita, and Van Atteveldt, Wouter

Subjects
*POLITICAL party leadership, *MASS media & politics, *VOTING research, *DECISION making in political science, *LEADERS, *ELECTIONS, *LEARNING, *POLITICAL campaigns, *MASS media industry, *POLITICAL participation, DUTCH politics & government, 1945-
Abstract

The prominence of party leaders in the media is one of the presumed causes of leader effects (i.e., the influence of party leader evaluation on the voting decision). Yet there is scant knowledge of the relationship between attention for party leaders in the news and the weight of party leader evaluations in the voting decision. This study fills this research gap by examining the effect of exposure to personalized coverage on the weight of party leader evaluations in the voting decision. Based on priming theory, exposure to personalized coverage is expected to make voters weigh leader evaluations more heavily in their vote decision. The study is based on a content analysis of the coverage of the 2010 Dutch election campaign and an 11-wave panel survey. Therewith the hypotheses are tested in a dynamic natural media environment. The analyses demonstrate that leader effects do occur. Voters use leader evaluations in their voting decision, even when controlling for the lagged vote, party evaluations, and issue agreement. Our data also support the hypothesis that personalized media coverage primes personalized voting behavior, even when controlling for learning and projection. Voters weigh leader evaluations more heavily in their vote decision and party evaluations and issue agreement less heavily when they are exposed to more personalized coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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2. Leaning to the Right or Leaning to the Left? Dutch Media and Politics.

Author

Takens, Janet, Ruigrok, Nel, van Hoof, Anita, and Scholten, Otto

Subjects
MASS media, ELECTIONS, NEWSPAPERS, PLURALISM, SOCIAL segmentation
Abstract

This study assesses to what extent the Dutch electorate was given a pluralistic offer of viewpoints in the media coverage during the election campaign of 2006. Moreover, we looked at the extent to which voting behavior of newspaper readers was a reflection of this offer. The level of pluralism of five traditional newspapers with a partisan history, stemming from pillarization, and two free dailies was measured. Hereby we looked at three forms of bias: Coverage bias, referring to the amount of attention media pay to political actors; agenda bias, focusing on the issues covered in the different newspapers; and statement bias, dealing with media opinions about the political actors in the campaign arena. We combined these date with opinion data collected from a bi-weekly seven wave panel survey. Our study detected two interesting features of the relationship between media and politics. First, the traditional newspapers are, to a certain degree, still characterized by a bias towards the parties they used to be aligned with. Second, news coverage knows a 'power bias'; incumbent parties receive more attention than opposition parties, although the tone towards incumbent parties is more negative. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008

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