Measuring Party Positions and Issue Salience from Media Coverage: Introducing and Cross-Validating New Indicators

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_E2A505C19793
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Measuring Party Positions and Issue Salience from Media Coverage: Introducing and Cross-Validating New Indicators
Périodique
Electoral Studies
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Helbling M., Tresch A.
ISSN
0261-3794
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
30
Numéro
1
Pages
174-183
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Recent studies have started to use media data to measure party positions and issue salience. The aim of this article is to compare and cross-validate this alternative approach with the more commonly used party manifestos, expert judgments and mass surveys. To this purpose, we present two methods to generate indicators of party positions and issue salience from media coverage: the core sentence approach and political claims analysis. Our cross-validation shows that with regard to party positions, indicators derived from the media converge with traditionally used measurements from party manifestos, mass surveys and expert judgments, but that salience indicators measure different underlying constructs. We conclude with a discussion of specific research questions for which media data offer potential advantages over more established methods.
Mots-clé
political parties, media coverage, expert survey, comparative manifestos project, convergent validity, European integration
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