Political Scandals, Newspapers, and the Election Cycle

Garz, Marcel; Sörensen, Jil

doi:10.1007/s11109-019-09577-2

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“…Finally, our findings contribute to the literature that investigates the role of media for political accountability, especially to research on news coverage about transgressions of politicians (e.g., Ferraz and Finan, 2008 ;Di Tella and Franceschelli, 2011 ;Snyder, 2011, 2015 ;Nyhan, 2014 ;Garz and Sörensen, 2019 ). In democratic societies, news media are considered crucial watchdogs, allowing voters to make informed decisions.…”

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“…However, the political returns to efforts of persuasion are not constant. These returns are likely higher when elections take place because changes in public opinion can have immediate consequences at the ballot box (Garz & Sörensen, 2021). Importantly, election outcomes shape political outcomes for several years.…”

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Ownership and media slant: Evidence from Swedish newspapers

Garz

Rickardsson

2022

Kyklos

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This study investigates the role of media owners for the political bias of newspapers in Sweden, using an original dataset on outlets, consumer preferences, and ownership between January 2014 and April 2019. We construct an index of slant based on similarities in the language between newspapers and speeches given by members of parliament.Our results indicate that newspapers held by the same owner tend to offer the same mix of slant, rather than aligning their bias with consumer preferences in their area of circulation.Owners are even less inclined to differentiate the slant across outlets before elections, when the political returns to persuasion are high. We find no evidence that owners impose a one-size-fits-all slant because product differentiation is too costly. In addition, we find suggestive evidence of owner-independent bias induced by the writers of opinion articles. The Swedish context illustrates that supply-driven slant cannot be ruled out in market-based media systems if the ties between media and politics are strong. | INTRODUCTIONPolitical media slant 1 can be driven by the demand side and the supply side of the news market. According to demand-side explanations, consumers often have a preference for news that confirms their existing beliefs. 1 We define political media slant as bias in news coverage that favors a certain ideology or political party. This bias may occur in the form of distortion or filtering, where the former implies that outlets frame the same fact in different ways, whereas the latter refers to the selection of facts and topics covered (Gentzkow et al., 2015).

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“…As pointed out by Jörn Fischer (2017: 13-14), who distinguishes between push and pull factors driving ministerial turnover, in these cases ministers are being 'pushed' by the principal to leave. As more recent research suggests, contemporary ministers, facing unprecedented levels of personalization and mediatization of politics, tend to fall easy prey to scandalization dynamics, and thus are considerably more likely than their historical predecessors to lose their office before the end of a government's term (Garz and Sörensen 2021).…”

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Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis

Helms

Vercesi

2022

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While previous research on cabinet reshuffles has offered valuable distinctions in terms of their timing, other defining features of reshuffles have largely escaped comparative inquiry. This article seeks to develop a more complete comparative assessment of cabinet reshuffles in parliamentary systems that reaches beyond the ‘classic’ samples of Westminster democracies. We seek to distinguish different ‘types’ of cabinet reshuffles that account for several key features, namely: the mode, the scope, the key principal and the party dimension of reshuffles. The usefulness and validity of this typology are demonstrated by a comparative assessment of cabinet reshuffles in four major West European parliamentary democracies. The conceptual distinctions and related empirical observations offered in this article should prove valuable, in particular when it comes to gauging the likely political and policy effects of different types of cabinet reshuffles, and should, ultimately, provide the foundations of a theory of comparative cabinet reshuffles.

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Political Scandals, Newspapers, and the Election Cycle

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Partisan Selective Engagement: Evidence from Facebook

Partisan Selective Engagement: Evidence from Facebook

Ownership and media slant: Evidence from Swedish newspapers

Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis

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