Measuring party positions and issue salience from media coverage: Discussing and cross-validating new indicators

Helbling, Marc; Tresch, Anke

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.12.001

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“…The authors show few differences for measurement of party positions if one uses media data instead of party manifestos or expert judgements. For the salience, the indicators are less convergent, suggesting a different emphasis by the parties during election campaigns or some media influence (Helbling and Tresch 2011). 8.…”

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When Supply Creates Demand: Social Democratic Party Strategies and the Evolution of Class Voting

Rennwald¹,

Evans²

2014

West European Politics

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When Supply Creates Demand: Social Democratic Party Strategies and the Evolution of Class Voting

Rennwald¹,

Evans²

2014

West European Politics

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“…Instead, cases reported by the newspapers are more likely to involve national issues, which are attractive for public opinion and thus entail higher benefits for the government. In this line, media generally reports salient cases, as it represents one of the most relevant political arenas in which societal issues are debated (Bennett et al 2004;Helbling and Tresch 2011). As public awareness increases, a case might entail larger costs or benefits for incumbents (Warntjen 2012).…”

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Judicial Politics in Unconsolidated Democracies: An Empirical Analysis of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2008–2016)

Castro-Montero

Dijck

2017

Justice System Journal

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In this article, we test the extent to which decisions by the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (ECC) are predicted by non-legal variables. Our theoretical argument proposes that not only the presence of public actors as plaintiffs-especially those working for the executive branch-but also political salience, i.e., the degree of importance attributed to a case by the government and public opinion, plays a crucial role in explaining the outcome of judicial decisions. Original data on all abstract review decisions issued by the ECC (2008ECC ( -2016) is used to test our argument. We control for possible selection effects, incorporating a novel measure of the overall quality of argumentation and strength of cases brought before the ECC by both public and private parties, in the form of an expert survey. Consistent with our argument, the results show that even when controlling for a wide range of potential confounders, norms are more likely to be struck down by the ECC when (1) public officials claim unconstitutionality than when nonpublic parties do, and (2) cases are reported by media. In the light of the Ecuadorian case, we conclude that the formally powerful ECC is quite sensitive to governmental influence, even under an improved situation of de jure judicial protections.

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“…While these improvements have been complementary two limitations remain. First, additional data has not been used within a mixed method research design or with the purpose to validate newspaper data (but see Helbling & Tresh, 2011). Second, none of these studies have included political ethnography in their methodological and analytical toolboxes.…”

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Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide in comparative migration studies: newspaper data, and political ethnography in mixed method research

Mügge

2016

CMS

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Newspaper data are popular in Comparative Migration Studies as they allow diachronic and cross-national comparison and are relatively easy and inexpensive to acquire. Critics, however, warn that newspaper data are hampered by selection, description and researcher bias. This article argues that research drawing on newspaper data can be improved by employing mixed methods to confirm and complement data and to analyze findings from different research paradigms. To demonstrate this claim, I ethnographically re-analyze part of the dataset of the Mobilisation on Ethnic Relations, Citizenship and Immigration (MERCI) project. I chose MERCI as publications based on its data, which I am well acquainted with, have inspired numerous researchers and European comparative research projects to pursue newspaper content analysis. This article shows how an ethnographic approach can address description bias and researcher unreliability, and reveal selection bias. It offers concrete suggestions for incorporating political ethnography into newspaper analysis. In doing so it advocates a new path for empirical research in Comparative Migration Studies, one that bridges the qualitative-quantitative divide. The conclusion encourages researchers on both sides of the quantitative-qualitative spectrum to reconsider habitual and safe research paradigms and move towards the middle to improve the quality of their work.

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Measuring party positions and issue salience from media coverage: Discussing and cross-validating new indicators

Cited by 118 publications

References 20 publications

When Supply Creates Demand: Social Democratic Party Strategies and the Evolution of Class Voting

When Supply Creates Demand: Social Democratic Party Strategies and the Evolution of Class Voting

Judicial Politics in Unconsolidated Democracies: An Empirical Analysis of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2008–2016)

Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide in comparative migration studies: newspaper data, and political ethnography in mixed method research

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