AUTNES Multi-Mode Panel Study 2017 (SUF edition)

Kritzinger, Sylvia; Aichholzer, Julian; Büttner, Nico; Eberl, Jakob-Moritz; Meyer, Thomas M.; Plescia, Carolina; Wagner, Markus; Morisi, Davide; Boomgaarden, Hajo G.; Müller, Wolfgang C.

doi:10.11587/nxddpe

Cited by 4 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…. As the Austrian party "Liste Pilz" is not included in CHES, we used the estimate provided by the AUTNES Multi Model Panel Study 2017(Kritzinger et al 2018) and rescaled this to comparable CHES scores.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Delegitimizing the media?

Egelhofer

Aaldering²,

Lecheler

2021

JLP

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A growing literature on the impact of “fake news“ accusations on legacy news outlets suggests that the use of this term is part of a much larger trend of increased and delegitimizing media criticism by political actors. However, so far, there is very little empirical evidence on how prevailing politicians’ delegitimizing media criticism really is and under which conditions it occurs. To fill these gaps, we present results of a content analysis of media-related Facebook postings by Austrian and German politicians in 2017 (N = 2,921). The results suggest that media criticism, in general, is actually rare and that about half of it can be described as delegitimizing (i.e., characterized by incivility or absence of argumentation). Most often, media criticism is used by populist politicians, who accuse “the media” in general of bias and falsehoods.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Delegitimizing the media?

Egelhofer

Aaldering²,

Lecheler

2021

JLP

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…However, crucially for the purpose of this paper, their issue priorities are not that distinct. With the exception of welfare state issues (named most important by 17% of party followers and 25% of non-followers), we find only very small divergences (3 ppts) in the issue priorities of these two groups (Kritzinger et al, 2018).…”

Section: Case Selection Data and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 54%

“…We focus on party communication on Facebook as it is the preferred social media platform for marketing purposes (Enli and Skogerbø, 2013;Kreiss et al, 2018) and was the most used social media application in Austria in 2017 with a market share of 76% (Statista, 2018 as cited in Parlamentsbibliothek, 2018). Moreover, a considerable number of voters used Facebook to follow the election: one in five survey respondents visited or followed a party or candidate Facebook page during the campaign (Kritzinger et al, 2018). The proportions are around 10 percent for the three larger parties (SPO ¨, O ¨VP, and FPO ¨), and between three and five percent for the smaller parties (Neos, Greens, LP).…”

Section: Case Selection Data and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Averaging all publicly available polls for the 2 months preceding the period of observation exhibits strong differences between these groups: major parties account for 24 to 33 percent of the intended votes (SPO ¨24.8, O ¨VP 33.1, FPO ¨23.7), whereas minor parties cluster in the mid-single digits (Greens 6.7, Neos 4.9, Pilz 4.9). 4 There is also a sizeable gap with respect to Facebook audiences: as shown by survey data (Kritzinger et al, 2018), major parties reach about 10 percent of the electorate, minor parties reach three to five percent (user interactions are therefore considerably higher for the three major parties, see Figure 2). A similar pattern emerges for campaign expenditures even though the Greens stand out a bit among minor parties (SPO ¨€7.4 m, O ¨VP €13 m, FPO ¨€10.7 m, Greens €5.2 m, Neos €1.8 m, Pilz €0.2 m).…”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Figure 1. Party sympathy scores of party voters, parties' Facebook followers, and other voters.Note: Data from Autnes Multi-Mode Panel 2017(Kritzinger et al, 2018).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Representative democracy presents politicians with an information problem: How to find out what voters want? While party elites used to rely on their membership or mass surveys, social media enables them to learn about voters’ issue priorities in real time and adapt their campaign messages accordingly. Yet, we know next to nothing about how campaigns make use of these new possibilities. To narrow this gap, we use a unique data set covering every Facebook post by party leaders and party organizations in the run-up to the 2017 Austrian parliamentary election. We test the hypothesis that party actors are more likely to double down on issues that have previously generated higher levels of user engagement. We also theorize that responsiveness is conditional on major/minor party status and pre-campaign issue salience. The analysis shows that parties’ issue strategies respond to user engagement, especially major parties on low-salience issues. This represents some of the first empirical evidence on how social media can enhance parties’ issue responsiveness.

show abstract

Voting at 16 in Practice: A Review of the Austrian Case

Aichholzer

Kritzinger

2019

Lowering the Voting Age to 16

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

AUTNES Multi-Mode Panel Study 2017 (SUF edition)

Cited by 4 publications

References 0 publications

Delegitimizing the media?

Delegitimizing the media?

Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook

Voting at 16 in Practice: A Review of the Austrian Case

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About