Artikel
Knowing more from less: how the information environment increases knowledge of party positions
Access to information is a hallmark of democracy, and democracy demands an informed citizenry. Knowledge of party positions is necessary for voters so that electoral choices reflect preferences, allowing voters to hold elected officials accountable for policy performance. Whereas most vote choice models assume that parties perfectly transmit positions, citizens in fact obtain political information via the news media, and this news coverage can be biased in terms of salience – which leads to asymmetric information. This study examines how information asymmetries in news coverage of parties influence knowledge about political party positions. It finds that the availability of information in the news media about a party increases knowledge about its position, and that party information in non-quality news reduces the knowledge gap more than information in quality news.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: British journal of political science ; ISSN: 1469-2112 ; Volume: 47 ; Year: 2017 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 571-588 ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Wirtschaft
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Information
Medien
Berichterstattung
Wissen
Parteipolitik
Partei
politischer Einfluss
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Banducci, Susan
Giebler, Heiko
Kritzinger, Sylvia
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Veröffentlichung
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Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge
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2017
- DOI
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doi:10.1017/S0007123415000204
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Banducci, Susan
- Giebler, Heiko
- Kritzinger, Sylvia
- Cambridge University Press
Time of origin
- 2017
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