Agenda-setting dynamics in France: Revisiting the ‘partisan hypothesis’

The 2012 French electoral campaign: Tools to understand campaign dynamics

“…It is part of the Comparative Agendas Project, which is a worldwide network of researchers who code data allowing cross-country comparisons (Wilkerson et al, 2009;Baumgartner et al, 2009). It uses a methodology based on content analysis of the titles of the four main national newspapers, four main regional newspapers, four radio channels and the content of the two main evening television news gathered 7 months before the election.…”

“…Agendas France goes further in comparing the salience of issues, thanks to content analysis showing how an issue is framed (positively/negatively; related to what other topic) and with other types of media (national press, local press, radio, TV). Both methods have been already used to analyse the relationship between media attention and voting intentions or candidate popularity (Gerstlé and François, 2011;Baumgartner et al, 2009).…”

Cross-national partisan effects on agenda stability

“…Our framework allows us to begin testing theories of policy change and democratic accountability that provides a more general approach than past case studies or single issue focused analyses. This approach builds on similar work focused on understanding aggregate patterns of issue attention through correlational and diversity based analyses (Baumgartner et al 2009;Jennings et al 2011;Boydstun et al 2014). The results show that parties' influence on the policy agenda depends on government type, the government's general ability to influence legislation and the economy following a major transition in government.…”

“…Renewed interest in parties by public policy research has shown the most common way of accounting for them in statistical models, the use of dummy variables to look for broad, party based differences in the dependent variable, leads to, at best, mixed results (e.g. Baumgartner et al 2009;John et al 2014). Indeed, the parties' literature itself is not immune to the shortcomings of overly rough measures (e.g.…”

When male heterosexual leaders politicize gender and sexual issues: The logic of representation in the 2014 Bordeaux municipal election campaign

“…This investigation into the dynamics of campaigns about gender and sexualities at local level should be seen in the context of political and scientific debates about the decline of party political divisions in French local politics (Arnaud et al, 2007;Baumgartner et al, 2009). This article questions Haegel's (2005) observation about the return of a religious-based opposition between 'moral order and permissiveness'.…”