Selective Attention and the Information Environment: Citizens’ Perceptions of Political Problems in the 2015 Swiss Federal Election Campaign

Wüest, Bruno

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“…Several studies presented in this volume link the different datasets in an innovative way. Wüest ( 2018 ) links the Selects voter surveys to the media analysis to assess the influence of the information environment on voters’ perceptions of the most important political problems. Kurella and Rosset ( 2018 ) integrate information from the candidate survey to their analysis of the post‐election survey while Petitpas and Sciarini ( 2018 ) fully exploit the three waves of the panel survey to study the short‐term changes in the way voters evaluate the competences of parties on specific issues.…”

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“…Parties’ advertisements on specific issues (migration, relations to the EU, economy) have only limited effects, however. Instead of analysing vote choice, Bruno Wüest ( 2018 ) invites the reader to take one step back and to think more carefully about individual perceptions of political problems. He analyses the process by which voters develop complex perceptions of political problems against the background of the rise of issue‐ and candidate‐based voting.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue “The 2015 Swiss National Elections”

Giger

Rennwald

Tresch

2018

Swiss Political Sci Review

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This special issue brings together a large variety of contributions dealing with party choice, political attitudes and the dynamics of electoral campaigns in Switzerland. The introduction places the contributions in the broader framework of current debates in the international literature and highlights substantial and methodological innovations. The articles in this volume address central issues of the literature dealing with the two-dimensional structure of political competition, take up key questions of the dynamics of election campaigns, and finally echo a large interest for the topic of populism, not only on the side of the parties but also on the side of the voters. The introduction also underlines the new and innovative ways in which the articles link the different datasets together in order to address substantial questions on the complexity of the environment in which voters form their choice and political parties operate during an election campaign. Patrick Emmenegger, Romain Lachat, Simon Lanz, Pascal Sciarini and Denise Traber. Second, we highly value the smooth and efficient collaboration with the editorial office of the Swiss Political Science Review, Thomas Widmer and Daniela Eberli in particular. Our thanks also go to the anonymous reviewers of the special issue who did a tremendous job in making the contributions even better. Last but not least, we would like to thank the Selects team at FORS for the preparation and online publication of the data -without them this Special Issue would not be possible.

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Introduction to the Special Issue “The 2015 Swiss National Elections”

Giger

Rennwald

Tresch

2018

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…STM is designed for use with longer documents, so results should be interpreted with caution. Several authors (e.g., Chae & Park, 2018;Qiang et al, 2016;Wüest, 2018) have successfully used STM with short-text responses (see Table A.6 and A.7 for the most popular two-word phrases, an alternate method to analyze these data). I prepared the STM corpus using standard techniques that involve stripping punctuation and removing common stop-words in this corpus like "thank you."…”

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Tweeting Public Service Complaints

O’Brochta

2023

JQD

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Many local governments have added new methods to report public service complaints like submitting a complaint on Twitter, hoping to expand access to more constituents. But who submits Twitter complaints, and how do those complaints compare to those submitted using other methods? I collect data on complaints submitted to the City of St. Louis and use these data to show that complaints submitted on Twitter are primarily from wealthy white residents concerned about issues related to parks or to their commutes. These types of complaints differ sharply from those submitted using other methods. Hence this descriptive evidence lends credence to the idea that providing a Twitter account to submit complaints may not expand access to local government services as much as previously thought. Local governments may want to carefully consider how the methods that they provide to submit public service complaints could help to determine the types of complaints they are likely to receive.

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Augmenting surveys with social media discourse on the workings of democracy from a cross-national perspective

Reveilhac,

Morselli

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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This paper introduces an unsupervised framework that illustrates how insights gathered from opinion surveys regarding the functionality of democracy can be connected to social media messages of politicians on an international scale. By concentrating on the influence of social media messages from elected officials, the study adopts a “top-down” theoretical approach that links citizens’ attitudes towards democracy with the viewpoints about democracy expressed by politicians within social media discourses. Using a word embedding classification strategy, democracy-related themes are extracted from politicians’ messages. The research is conducted across 11 European countries, namely, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Switzerland is also included in the study because of its direct democracy system. The 10th round of the European Social Survey serves as the basis for assessing citizens’ democratic attitudes. The study encompasses two main analytical segments. First, aggregated analyses conducted at the country level reveal the degree of alignment between prominent democracy-related themes present in politicians’ discourse and citizens’ perceived significance of these same themes. Second, individual-level connections between social media data and survey respondents are established through their preferred political party (or orientation). Variable importance analysis is subsequently applied to explore which democracy-related themes conveyed by politicians hold significance in predicting public contentment with democracy.

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Selective Attention and the Information Environment: Citizens’ Perceptions of Political Problems in the 2015 Swiss Federal Election Campaign

Cited by 3 publications

References 67 publications

Introduction to the Special Issue “The 2015 Swiss National Elections”

Introduction to the Special Issue “The 2015 Swiss National Elections”

Tweeting Public Service Complaints

Augmenting surveys with social media discourse on the workings of democracy from a cross-national perspective

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