Agenda Dynamics in Spain

Chaqués‐Bonafont, Laura; Palau, Anna M.; Baumgartner, Frank R.

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“…On the contrary, Spain is characterized by a very neat diachronic tendency: the index of disproportionality decreases over time, showing an increasing level of correspondence between public opinion priorities and government legislation. This finding is interesting because it seems to openly contradict previous research on the topic: in fact, Chaqués Bonafont et al (2015: 244) recently noted that, in Spain, ‘responsiveness is decreasing over time’. However, their time span is longer than mine, since they analyse more than 30 years of Spanish politics, the period between 1982 and 2013, finding the level of responsiveness in the 1980s and the 1990s decreased in the 2000s, whereas I focus only on the 10 years between 2003 and 2012.…”

Section: Descriptive Statistics: the Evolution Of Public And Policy Amentioning

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“…Moreover, a decreasing level of responsiveness is expected in all those countries that have recently witnessed the consolidation of a multilevel governance system due to the process of Europeanization. In sum, each political system where there has been increasing delegation of powers upwards towards the EU and/or downwards toward sub-national units is expected to show declining responsiveness over time (Chaqués Bonafont et al 2015: 246).…”

Section: How and Why Policymakers (Do Not) Respond To Public Opinion mentioning

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Public Agendas and Policy Agendas in Three Western European Countries: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Pritoni

2018

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In any democratic system, the question of whether governments pay attention to citizens’ needs and requests represents a crucial component of democratic quality. But what conditions favour this fundamental democratic process? This article compares policy priorities identified by public opinion with the actual legislative production in Italy, Spain and the UK from 2003 to 2012. The article’s methodology is a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in which causal conditions are represented by politico-institutional and contextual factors, while the outcome consists of the degree of overlap between public opinion priorities and legislation. Empirical analysis shows that there are four paths leading to a correspondence in priorities: first, it is linked to the combination of high government decision-making capacity and declining citizens’ trust in government; second, it is also linked to the combination of rising citizens’ trust and low government decision-making capacity. Third and fourth, priorities also correspond where there is a simultaneous absence of both trust and elections, and in the absence of both decision-making capacity and elections, respectively.

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Section: Descriptive Statistics: the Evolution Of Public And Policy Amentioning

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Section: How and Why Policymakers (Do Not) Respond To Public Opinion mentioning

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Public Agendas and Policy Agendas in Three Western European Countries: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Pritoni

2018

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“…Further studies should look into the content of these debates (a good starting point here is the study by Chaqués‐Bonafont, Palau, and Baumgartner, ) to help determine the agenda‐setting effects these highly salient engagements can have. For instance, the State of the Union in the United States serves the president with a unique opportunity to lay out his political agenda; given the structural differences between both countries, should we expect Spanish debates to have similar effects on media and public opinion?…”

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Making and Breaking Party Leaders? An Informational Theory of Temporary and Lasting Impacts of Prime Minister Debates in Spain

Sagarzazu

Williams

2017

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. In this project, we develop an informational theory that identifies which prime minister debates are the most meaningful in terms of shifting Spanish public opinion . We argue that debates immediately following the installation of new leaders (because they shine light on leadership traits) and debates occurring in times of crisis (because voters can judge both the leader's ability to remedy the problems and their policy proposals) will have the largest short-and long-term effects. Methods. We use seemingly unrelated regression to explore the impacts of 15 Spanish State of the Nation debates from 1998 to 2016 on vote intention for Partido Popular (PP) and the Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE). Result. Debates following the installation of new party leaders often produce sizable improvements in vote intention, but the most meaningful debates occur during economic crises. Conclusion. Parliamentary debates are valuable opportunities for party leaders to shift public opinion in their favor, a fact that is not lost to them considering the time and energy devoted to crafting strategies, and the media's fascination with providing extensive coverage of the debates. This study has important implications for the study of dynamic processes (such as vote intention), and the link between parties' strategic communications and voting behavior.

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“…As said before, we argue that audience behaviour accounts for the attention that each media outlet receives and hence, it captures the informational experiences of people. Likewise, relaying on the abundant scientific evidences that started with the pioneering work by M. , we assume that the public agenda tends to match the media agenda (Arsenault and Castells, 2006;Bonafont and Palau, 2011;Chaques-Bonafont et al, 2015;Jones and Baumgartner, 2005). Thus, this analysis can shed light on the debate of whether or not there is a shared public agenda in the online sphere by assessing the audience behaviour -base on audience overlapping-and identifying, if it does exist, common informational experiences.…”

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A Network Analysis of Online Audience Behaviour: Towards a Better Comprehension of the Agenda Setting Process

Majó-Vázquez¹

2015

IDP Rev. Internet derecho polít.

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By constructing the network of media audience, this study sheds light on the predominant modes of exposure to online political information in Spain. Novelty data from a panel of thirty thousand individuals is used for the research. The preliminary results bring evidences for reviewing the line of reasoning that advocates for the prevailing fragmentation of the public sphere. More notably, the results contribute to proving that a substantial level of audience concentration still remains in the web. The highest levels of audience overlapping are found in those media outlets that are driving the media agenda in the offline sphere. Therefore the study proffers evidence that the structure of the online public sphere might guarantee the necessary shared informational experiences for a deliberative democracy.The implications of the current networked audience behaviour for the study of the agenda setting process are discussed along with the chances for a shared public agenda in Spanish society. Observational methods and content analysis have been used in the study of the agenda setting process so far. However, the current communication environment characterized by unlimited, decentralized and abundant sources of political information prompts the application of new analytical approaches. Networks are at the heart of online communication and network science allows for analyzing its structure. It provides the ARTICLE

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Agenda Dynamics in Spain

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Public Agendas and Policy Agendas in Three Western European Countries: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Public Agendas and Policy Agendas in Three Western European Countries: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Making and Breaking Party Leaders? An Informational Theory of Temporary and Lasting Impacts of Prime Minister Debates in Spain

A Network Analysis of Online Audience Behaviour: Towards a Better Comprehension of the Agenda Setting Process

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