The political agenda-setting power of the media: The Europeanisation nexus

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Title
The political agenda-setting power of the media: The Europeanisation nexus
Journal
Journal of European Public Policy
Author(s)
Sciarini Pascal, Tresch Anke
ISSN
1350-1763
Publication state
Published
Issued date
01/05/2019
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
26
Number
5
Pages
734-751
Language
english
Abstract
Previous studies have demonstrated that the extent to which media coverage influences the issue priorities of policy-makers is contingent on the type of issues, media, and political agendas. This article contributes to this literature by elaborating on a factor that has been surprisingly neglected so far: the domestic or Europeanised character of the political issue covered in the news. Empirically, we apply time-series cross-section analyses to a dataset on media and parliamentary agendas during the years 1995-2003 in Switzerland. We find that the media's political agenda-setting power mainly stems from news coverage of domestic issues. News on Europeanised issues have a weak impact on so-called symbolic parliamentary agendas, and no impact at all on the more substantial parliamentary agendas that may initiate decision-making processes.
Keywords
Political agenda-setting, media, parliament, Europeanisation, Switzerland
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