Party contestation and Europe on the news agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary Elections

Schuck, Andreas; Xezonakis, Georgios; Elenbaas, Matthijs; Banducci, Susan; Vreese, Claes H. de

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.09.021

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“…29 We focus on national television and newspapers because these media are consistently listed as the most important sources of information about the EU for citizens in Europe (Eurobarometer 54-62). 30 The list of outlets, as well as more information on the coding, can be found in Schuck et al (2011).…”

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Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions

Banducci¹,

Giebler²,

Kritzinger³

2015

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions

Banducci¹,

Giebler²,

Kritzinger³

2015

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…Other research has considered visibility of EU institutions as an indicator of Europeanness (e.g., Brüggemann & Kleinen-von Königslöw, 2009) or simply visibility of EU news in general. While the 2009 EP elections indeed marked an increase in visibility of the elections (see Schuck et al, 2011), our endeavor here was to unravel the features of the coverage rather than merely assessing the presence of coverage. Second, we believe that our Europeanness indicators are quite inclusive.…”

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Finding Europe: Mapping and explaining antecedents of ‘Europeanness’ in news about the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections

Schuck¹,

Vreese²

2011

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Previous research has characterized European news coverage as mainly domestic in focus, hampering the emergence of a European public sphere. This study analyses the European nature of the news coverage of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. We not only describe the level of Europeanness in news coverage but also propose a comprehensive model to explain differences across countries. We employ a cross-national media content analysis (N=52.009) conducted in all 27 EU member states. Findings show that especially public TV channels and broadsheet newspapers are more European in coverage than their private and tabloid counterparts. Newspapers are also more European in focus in general compared to television. Furthermore, coverage is more European in countries with higher public EU support, the coverage gets more European during the campaign and is more European in countries that are geographically closer to Brussels, and in which no other elections take place at the same time.Keywords: Europeanization, European elections, election coverage, cross-national comparison, media content analysis Zusammenfassung: Medienberichterstattung über die Europäische Union (EU) ist überwie-gend national fokussiert, was sowohl für die Entwicklung einer Europäischen Öffentlich-keit hinderlich ist als auch einer aktiveren Teilnahme von Seiten der Bürger am europäi-schen Projekt entgegensteht. Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die Medienberichterstattung zur Europawahl 2009. Dabei beschreiben wir nicht nur, wie europäisch der Fokus der Berichterstattung zur Europawahl war, sondern entwickeln und testen zudem ein Model, um Unterschiede in der Berichterstattung zwischen den Mitgliedsstaaten anhand von länder-, medien-und zeitabhängigen Faktoren zu erklären. Unsere Analyse basiert dabei auf einer in allen 27 EU-Mitgliedsstaaten durchgeführten Medieninhaltsanalyse von Zeitungs-und TVNachrichten (N=52.009). Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Medienberichterstattung in öffentlich-rechtlichen TV-Sendern und in Qualitätszeitungen europäischer im Fokus ist, verglichen mit privaten TV-Sendern und anderen Zeitungen. Zeitungen sind zudem generell europäischer im Fokus ihrer Berichterstattung als TV-Sender. Desweiteren zeigen unsere Ergebnisse, dass Medienberichterstattung generell europäischer im Fokus ist in Ländern, in denen die öffentliche Meinung gegenüber der EU positiver eingestellt ist und in Ländern die geographisch näher zu Brüssel liegen und in denen keine andere nationale Wahl parallel zur Europawahl stattfindet. Zudem nimmt der Fokus auf Europa zu, je näher der Wahltag rückt.

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“…News coverage during EP election campaigns has become more comprehensive in recent years (Boomgaarden & De Vreese, 2016;De Vreese, Banducci, Semetko, & Boomgaarden, 2006;Schuck, Xezonakis, Elenbaas, Banducci, & De Vreese, 2011) and the EP as well as individual members (MEPs) receive regular broadsheet coverage during non-election times (Gattermann, 2013;Gattermann & Vasilopoulou, 2015). Furthermore, research on the personalization of politics suggests that individual politicians (e.g., Langer, 2007;Rahat & Sheafer, 2007) and leaders in particular (e.g., Boumans, Boomgaarden, & Vliegenthart, 2013) receive increasingly more news attention at the ex- Put, Van Hecke, Cunningham, & Wolfs, 2016).…”

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Evaluations of the Spitzenkandidaten: The Role of Information and News Exposure in Citizens’ Preference Formation

Gattermann

Vreese

Brug

2016

PaG

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The 2014 European Parliament (EP) elections were characterised by a novel element in European Union (EU) politics. For the first time, the major European party families put forward top candidates for President of the European Commission, the so-called Spitzenkandidaten. This paper tests whether this innovation had the potential to-at least partiallyalleviate the alleged accountability deficit. We rely on original survey data to assess citizens' preferences for each of the main Spitzenkandidaten: Jean-Claude Juncker, Martin Schulz, and Guy Verhofstadt. Our research is guided by three questions: what explains whether citizens formulate a preference for a certain Spitzenkandidat? Which factors are responsible for variations in such preferences? And, are these explanations moderated by citizens' political awareness? We show that three factors enable citizens to formulate a preference for the Spitzenkandidaten: news exposure, general EU political information, and campaign-specific information about the Spitzenkandidaten. Furthermore, we demonstrate that only the most knowledgeable citizens are able to use party cues in their evaluations of the Spitzenkandidaten. The implications of our findings are discussed with reference to the EU's democratic deficit debate.

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Party contestation and Europe on the news agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary Elections

Cited by 107 publications

References 37 publications

Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions

Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions

Finding Europe: Mapping and explaining antecedents of ‘Europeanness’ in news about the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections

Evaluations of the Spitzenkandidaten: The Role of Information and News Exposure in Citizens’ Preference Formation

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