Mediatization and Media Interventionism: A Comparative Analysis of Sweden and the United States

Strömbäck, Jesper; Dimitrova, Daniela V.

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“…However, our results show that evaluative news has the most impact. It is journalists who choose to portray a party positively or negatively, which indicates a certain degree of media interventionism (Strömbäck & Dimitrova, 2011). As such, an important aspect of campaign coverage that induces vote switching is one that parties are less able to influence.…”

Section: The Impact Of Issues Party Visibility and Evaluations On Vmentioning

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Priming Issues, Party Visibility, and Party Evaluations: The Impact on Vote Switching

Geers¹,

Bos

2016

Political Communication

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Voter volatility has become a hallmark of Western democracies in the past three decades. At the same time short-term factors-such as the media's coverage of issues, parties, and candidates during an election campaign-have become more important for voters' decisions. While previous research did look at how campaign news in general affects electoral volatility in general, it has omitted to explicitly test the mechanisms underlying these effects. Building on theories of agenda setting, (affective) priming, and issue ownership, the current study aims to explain why certain news aspects lead voters to switch their vote choice. We theorize it is the visibility of a party, the evaluation of a party, and the attention for issues owned by a party that primes voters to switch to a certain party. We use national panel survey data (N = 765) and link this to an extensive content analysis of campaign news on television and in newspapers in the run up to the 2012 Dutch national elections. The results show that issue news leads to vote change in the direction of the party that owns the issue. Even stronger is the effect of party visibility on vote switching. Our results, however, find the strongest support for the effect of party evaluations on vote change: More favorable news about a party increases switching to that party. Keywords campaign news, content analysis, media effects, panel data, voting behaviorIn the past three decades the number of floating voters in Western democracies has increased considerably. The linkages between parties and citizens are of declining importance (Dalton & Wattenberg, 2000) and voters make more independent political choices instead of relying on traditional loyalties (Van der Meer, Van Elsas, Lubbe, & Van der Brug, 2013). As a consequence, citizens switch more often between parties than they did before, not only between elections, but also during election campaigns. With the decline in voter loyalty, sociological determinants have lost much of their predictive power (Dalton, 2013 Marks, 1999; Van der Meer et al., 2013) and results are scattered. Some report positive correlations between media use and volatility (Baker et al., 2006;Forrest & Marks, 1999), while others find a negative relationship (e.g., Bybee et al., 1981) and some find no effect (Dassonneville, 2011). Although these studies give insight into the effect of media use, the effect of media coverage is understudied.More recent studies have investigated whether different types of campaign coverage, most notably issue news and contest or strategic news, have an effect on individual-level vote switching (Adriaansen, Van Praag, & De Vreese, 2012;Takens, 2013). Adriaansen and colleagues (2012) found that issue news can induce voter uncertainty, whereas strategic news decreases voter uncertainty. This voter uncertainty would subsequently spark electoral volatility. In contrast, the study by Takens (2013) showed that voters become volatile in response to contest news, while issue news leads to stability in vote preferences. In this stud...

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Section: The Impact Of Issues Party Visibility and Evaluations On Vmentioning

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Priming Issues, Party Visibility, and Party Evaluations: The Impact on Vote Switching

Geers¹,

Bos

2016

Political Communication

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“…We specifically focus on two possible dimensions of conflict frames: interventionism and substantiveness. The concept of interventionism alludes to the level of journalistic intervention in a news message (Strömbäck and Dimitrova 2011). This aspect of conflict framing alludes to the level in which the journalistic voice is visible in conflict frames in the media.…”

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“…Journalistic visibility entails the adaptation of a more interpretative style of reporting (Hanitzsch 2007) and "journalists reporting about political news in their own words, scenarios and assessments" (Esser 2008, 403). This interpretative style has become an important characteristic of political news reporting, both in the United States and in Europe (Iyengar and McGrady 2007;Strömbäck and Dimitrova 2011).…”

Section: Conflict Frames Depend On Journalistic Interventionismmentioning

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Towards A Typology of Conflict Frames

2017

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Conflict-framing literature has suffered from a lack of consistent conceptualization and consequently the aim of this paper is to unravel the dimensionality of conflict frames. We conducted a content analysis (N = 1536) to develop a typology of conflict news coverage. Using factor analysis, different aspects of conflict news are distinguished with level of substantiveness and interventionism as the main dimensions. Furthermore, the study focuses on the occurrence of these different types of conflict frames in the news and the role of contextual factors. For example, results indicate that articles with conflict frames contain more interventionism and less strategic framing online, more journalistic intervention in quality newspapers and less substantive news in election times when compared to routine periods. The study contributes to the literature by offering a more nuanced view of the presence of different types of conflict news in the media.

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“…Consequently, the elements that make up the news frames about politics reside in the rhetoric of the political class, and they must be understood as "bundles of consistent issue-arguments, originally proposed by opponents or proponents" in a campaign or political debate (Matthes, 2012, p. 254). Media and journalists, on the other hand, will select and use a specific journalistic frame or frames to present that political event to society (Strömbäck & Dimitrova, 2011). Among the studies that have sought to determine the political frames is the one carried out by Cappella and Jamieson (1997), who, following previous proposals, suggest the existence of two generic news frames in the political coverage: the issue frame and the strategic frame.…”

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Framing of Electoral Processes: The Stages of the Campaign as a Moderator of the Presence of Political Frames in the News

Muriel¹,

Saldierna²,

Lazcano³

2018

Pacla

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Mediatization and Media Interventionism: A Comparative Analysis of Sweden and the United States

Cited by 145 publications

References 32 publications

Priming Issues, Party Visibility, and Party Evaluations: The Impact on Vote Switching

Priming Issues, Party Visibility, and Party Evaluations: The Impact on Vote Switching

Towards A Typology of Conflict Frames

Framing of Electoral Processes: The Stages of the Campaign as a Moderator of the Presence of Political Frames in the News

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