Full Description
This book brings together cutting-edge research on media in British elections. Chapters from a range of authors link extensive content analysis data from traditional and online media with survey data on political attitudes and behaviour in the three general elections between 2015 and 2019. The book examines a wide variety of topics that go well beyond the typical subjects of media effects research, including priming, intermedia agenda-setting, and media coverage of women and ethnic minority candidates and its impact. It provides the first comprehensive survey of media effects in contemporary British politics in 25 years. Many of the findings suggest more robust media effects in British elections than the conventional wisdom has allowed, and urge deeper engagement from scholars and practitioners with this strand of election analysis.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Media Effects in British Electoral Politics
Daniel Stevens, Susan Banducci, Laszlo Horvath and Ekaterina Kolpinskaya
1. The 2015-19 British General Elections in Broadcast and Print News: Topics, Actors and Sentiment
Laszlo Horvath and Ekaterina Kolpinskaya
2. Intermedia Agenda-setting in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 General Elections
Daniel Stevens, Susan Banducci, Laszlo Horvath and Ekaterina Kolpinskaya
3. Flows of Information in Election Campaigns: Who Influences Whom?
Charlotte James, Susan Banducci and Iulia Cioroianu
4. Ageing and Agenda-setting in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 General Elections
Daniel Stevens, Shukru Esmene, Catherine Leyshon and Michael Leyshon
5. Media Partisanship, Issue Coverage and Individuals' Perceptions of Issue Stance Importance
Daniel Ziebarth
6. Chucking Britain into the Cor-bin?: Newspapers and Perceptions of Party Leaders in the 2017 and 2019 General Elections
Daniel Stevens
7. Candidate Experience and the 'Gender Penalty' in the 2019 General Election
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj, Patrick English and Susan Banducci
8. How does Media Exposure to Candidates with Shared Gender and Ethnicity Impact Individuals' Political Engagement?
Amanda Haraldsson
9. Constituency Competitiveness and Candidate Coverage: Exploring the Gendered Sentiment of News Media during Recent British General Elections
Hannah Bunting and Laszlo Horvath
Concluding Thoughts: Emerging Trends in Political Communication and Electoral Politics in Britain
Daniel Stevens, Susan Banducci, Laszlo Horvath and Ekaterina Kolpinskaya
